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 only apply to the filesystem for which they are set.
To open a CVS filesystem's customizer:
- Right-click the filesystem's root node in the Explorer and choose 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
- Working Directory. Specifies the working directory where you
keep your personal copy of version-controlled files. Enter 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 enter commands as you would on the command line.
- Output Display. Determines how CVS command 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 only run
on files designated as "important" for that type of node. For example, on
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 origirnal file name with ~.
You can set the Locally Ignored Files property to ignore backup files so that
they don't appear in the Explorer.
Server Settings Tab
- Server Type. The conection method used to access the CVS repository
server. At this time, the built-in CVS client only supports 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 above fields.
- Pserver Login. Whether or not you are logged in to the repository
server. If you are not logged in, you can click Pserver Login to enter your
password and log in to the server.
Rel. Mountpoint Tab
When you mount a CVS filesystem, the Java package root may 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. Mountpoint tab in the built-in CVS client customizer shows a tree
view of the filesystem. To set the relative mountpoint, expand the directory
nodes and select the node of the directory where you want to set the relative
mountpoint. You cannot set multiple relative mountpoints for a filesystem that
is already mounted. Use the New CVS wizard to set multiple relative mountpoints
for a single CVS filesystem.
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