6.7. Examining the CVS Repository
Problem
You want to explore the CVS repository from inside Eclipse.
Solution
Use the CVS Repository Exploring perspective. Open this perspective by selecting Window→ Open Perspective→ Other→ CVS Repository Exploring. Or, if you’ve opened this perspective in the past—which means Eclipse will have added it to the Open Perspective menu—select Window→ Open Perspective→ CVS Repository Exploring.
Discussion
The CVS Repository Exploring perspective enables you to see
what’s inside the CVS repository. For example, you
can see the entire GreetingApp
project, all the
way down to the GreetingClass.java
file, in the
CVS Repositories view at left in Figure 6-8.
Figure 6-8. The CVS repository perspective
This project, GreetingApp
, is in the
repository’s HEAD
section, which
is the main development stream.
Tip
Also note the CVSROOT
directory, which holds CVS
administrative data; the Branches node, which holds any files in
other branches of development; and the Versions node, which holds
explicitly labeled versions.
Eclipse 3.0
In Eclipse 3.0, you can determine who’s responsible for a bug. You right-click a file and select Team→ Show Annotation to open a CVS Annotation view showing the selected file in the CVS Repositories view. When you select a line in the editor, the CVS Annotation view reveals who released that edit to the file.
See Also
Recipe 6.8 on checking projects out ...
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