Built-in CVS Client Customizer
Each built-in CVS client filesystem has a customizer you can use to change
the basic filesystem settings that you entered in the New CVS wizard. Changes
made in the customizer apply only to the filesystem for which they are set.
You can open a CVS filesystem's customizer by right-clicking the filesystem's
root node in the Explorer and choosing Customize.
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These customizer options appear only for filesystems
mounted with the built-in CVS client. CVS command-line filesystems use the
generic VCS filesystem customizer. |
Basic Properties Tab
You can configure the following settings on the Basic Properties tab:
- Working Directory. Specifies the working directory where you
keep your personal copy of version-controlled files. Type the path to the
working directory in the field, or click Browse to select it in the file chooser.
- Auto Refresh. Sets the frequency with which VCS filesystems
automatically refresh file status information.
- User Interface Mode. Determines how you enter options when calling
CVS commands. Only Default Switches runs commands with basic or no command
options. GUI Style presents a dialog box of advanced options. Command-Line
Style lets you type commands as you would on the command line.
- Output Display. Determines how CVS command output is displayed.
You can choose Standard Command-Line Display to view command output in text
form, or you can choose Formatted Output or Abbreviated Output to view the
output in a formatted dialog box.
- Process All Files. If True, sets commands to run on all files
represented by the selected node or nodes. If False, the commands run only
on files designated as important for that type of node. For example, on Java
form nodes (
),
.form files and .java files are important, but .class
files are unimportant. On Java source nodes (
),
.java files are important and .class files are unimportant.
- Offline Mode. Disables automatic refreshing of status information
for files in the CVS filesystem. You can still get file status information
for a file by using the Refresh command.
- Backup Files. Creates a backup of files every time you save
them. Backup files are named by appending the original file name with a tilde
(~). You can set the Locally Ignored Files property to ignore backup
files so that they don't appear in the Explorer.
Server Settings Tab
You can configure the following settings on the Server Settings tab:
- Server Type. The connection method used to access the CVS repository
server. At this time, the built-in CVS client supports only pserver
servers.
- Server. The name of the CVS repository server.
- Server Port. The port through which the CVS repository server
is contacted. The default server port is 2401.
- Repository. The location of the repository on the CVS repository
server.
- User Name. The user name you use to access the CVS repository.
- CVSROOT. The CVSROOT as compiled from the information you entered
in the preceding fields.
- Pserver Login. Login status for the repository server. If you
are not logged in, you can click Pserver Login to type your password and log
in to the server.
Rel. Mount Point Tab
When you mount a CVS filesystem, the Java package root might differ from the
CVS root. To ensure proper functioning of the CVS commands, mount the directory
at the CVS root. If you mount the CVS filesystem at a level higher than the
Java package root, you can set a relative mount point so that the Java classes
are handled properly.
The Rel. Mount Point tab in the built-in CVS client customizer shows a tree
view of the filesystem. To set the relative mount point, expand the directory
nodes and select the node of the directory where you want to set the relative
mount point. You cannot set multiple relative mount points for a filesystem
that is already mounted. Use the New CVS wizard to set multiple relative mount
points for a single CVS filesystem.
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