Before you can begin work on a development project using the CVS in the IDE,
you must set up a CVS repository for that project. If command-line CVS is installed
on your system, you can create a local CVS repository with the IDE's CVS command-line
support.
- Outside of the IDE, create a directory or folder for the CVS repository
on your system.
The CVS repository should be in a place accessible to all of the project's
developers but relatively safe from accidental deletions.
- Outside of the IDE, create a directory or folder for your CVS working directory
on your system. If you already have a directory with sources that you want
to put under CVS control, you can skip this step.
- Choose Versioning
Mount
Version Control
CVS
from the main window to open the New CVS wizard.
- Click the Browse button. Navigate to and select the directory you want to
use as your working directory. Click Open to leave the file chooser and click
Next.
- In the CVS Connection Method panel, select the Local radio button.
- Click the Browse button next to the Repository field. Navigate to and select
the repository directory you created in Step 1. Click Open to leave the file
chooser and click Next.
- Click the Command-Line Client Support radio button. Specify the path to
the CVS executable by clicking Browse, navigating to the executable, and clicking
Open to exit the file chooser. If your system's PATH environment variable
already points toward CVS, you can continue without modifying this field.
If you are running on Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME, you also need
to specify a command shell in the UNIX® shell field.
When you have entered all of the necessary information, click Next.
- Leave the Check Out... checkbox in the Initial Checkout panel unselected
and click Finish.
A new filesystem is mounted in the Explorer.
- Right-click the root node of the new filesystem and choose CVS
Init to initialize the repository.
- Right-click the root node of the new filesystem and choose CVS
Checkout to prepare your working
directory for connection with the repository. Click OK to close the CVS Checkout
dialog box without filling in any of the fields.
- Right-click the root node of the new filesystem and choose CVS
Add
to add the files to the repository. In the Add dialog box, click the Add All
Local Files in Folder Contents radio button and select the Add the Folder
Contents Recursively checkbox.
The files are marked to be added to the repository, and the status on their
nodes changes to Locally Added.
- Select the root node of the filesystem and choose CVS
Commit
to add the files to the repository. After the Commit command finishes, all
of the file nodes display the Up-to-date status.
The files are now under CVS version control. You can now use CVS commands
in the IDE to add and remove files, commit changes to files, view differences
and file histories, and so on.