Mounting a CVS Filesystem

To work with CVS in the IDE, you must mount a CVS working directory as a filesystem in the IDE using the New CVS wizard.

You can use the wizard to mount a working directory that you already have on your system or to connect to a CVS repository and create a new working directory. The wizard also enables you to choose between the IDE's built-in CVS client and the IDE's support for the CVS command-line executable.

To mount a CVS filesystem:

  1. Choose Versioning and choose Mount Version Control and choose CVS from the main window.
  2. Step through the New CVS wizard to set up the filesystem. The wizard steps vary, depending on your environment and whether a working directory is already checked out from the CVS repository.

    Once you have completed the wizard, a new CVS filesystem node appears on the Filesystems tab in the Explorer. The CVS status for each file appears in brackets after its name.

    Built-in CVS client filesystems are represented by a red version control filesystem icon (Built-in CVS client filesystem icon) in the Explorer.

    CVS command-line filesystems are represented by a purple version control filesystem icon (Generic VCS filesystem icon) in the Explorer.

important When you first mount a CVS filesystem, the statuses for the files might not be refreshed. To refresh the status of all the files, right-click the filesystem's node and choose CVS and choose Refresh Recursively.
For more specific information on using the New CVS wizard, see New CVS Wizard.
See also
Creating a CVS Working Directory
VCS Support on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME
Calling CVS Commands
Setting a Relative Mount Point for a CVS Filesystem
Reconfiguring a CVS Filesystem
CVS Commands
Built-in Client Filesystem Properties
Global Settings for VCS Filesystems

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