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 Mount CVS wizard. Changes made in the customizer only apply to the filesystem for which they are set.

To open a CVS filesystem's customizer:

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
The working directory is 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.

Use Zipped File Transfer
Select this checkbox to use file compression when transferring files between the server and your system.

Offline Mode
Select this checkbox to disable 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.

Hide Shadow Files
If this checkbox is selected, the Explorer does not display nodes for files that do not physically exist in your working directory, such as Locally Removed and Needs Checkout files.

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
Displays the CVSROOT value as compiled from the information you entered in the above fields.

Pserver Login
Displays 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 Mount CVS wizard to set multiple relative mountpoints for a single CVS filesystem.

See also
Generic VCS Customizer
Reconfiguring a CVS Filesystem
CVS Filesystem Properties
Global Settings for VCS Filesystems
Setting a Relative Mount Point for a CVS Filesystem

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