Repository Management

• Start Eclipse
• Window | Open Perspective | CVS Repository Exploring
  • This will add an icon to the quick dock option. See Point 1
  • This should open the CVS Repositories View. See Point 2. If not, you can do Window | Show View | CVS Repositories
• In the CVS Repositories View, Right Click | New | Repository Location
• Enter the following details on the Add CVS Repository window
  • Host: cvs.arabx.com.au
  • Repository Path: /home/repository/cvs
  • User: [username]
  • Password: [password]
  • Connection Type: pserver
  • Finish

Project Management

• Within the CVS Repositories View, you can see the appropiate CVS repositories
• Expand the repository, and then HEAD (Point 1) to get a list of projects within the CVS Repository (Point 2).
• The simpliest way to get a CVS project into Eclipse, is to Right Click on the CVS Project, and select Checkout
• In larger projects, you would always do Right Click, Checkout Out As, this gives you a dialog.
  • At the Check Out At dialog, normally you would select the appropiate project name (Point 1), normally the project plus some indicator of tag version or branch. Click Next (Point 2)
  • Next
  • Now is when you normally select an appropiate branch or version. In this case, you could expand Branches or Versions (Point 1). I’ve simply created some dummy versions (BUILD_100, BUILD_101) (Point 2). Choice One, Click Finish (Point 3)
• Now you should be in the Navigator View, if not, Select Window | Show View | Navigator.
  • Expanding out the project, will notice the following.
  • The Project has a decorator of the Repository (Point 1), and generally the branch details if applicable
  • Individual files all have a Revision Decorator (Point 2)
  • New Files when created have a > indicator (Point 3), and this propogrates to each parent directory and project

NOTE: These CVS repositories are just test areas, they are not used for any production systems.