CVS Filesystem Properties
You can access settings for individual CVS filesystems by right-clicking the filesystem's root
in the Explorer and choosing Properties. The properties available depend on which CVS
client you are using. For built-in CVS client filesystems, you can set the following properties:
Properties Tab
- Auto Refresh. Sets the frequency with which VCS filesystems automatically refresh file status information.
- CVS Ignore List. List of files and patterns that are ignored by CVS as specified in the
cvsignore
file.
- Hidden. If True, the filesystem is not displayed in the Explorer.
- Hide Shadow Files. If True, 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.
- Offline Mode. If True, automatic refreshing of status information is disabled. You can still get file status
information for a file by using the Refresh command.
- 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, the command is run on all files represented by the selected node or nodes.
If False, the command is 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.
- Relative Mount Point. The relative path from the working directory to the filesystem root.
- 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.
- Zipped File Transfer. If True, file compression is used when transferring files between the
server and your system.
Expert Tab
- Create Backup Files. If True, the IDE 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.
- Locally Ignored Files. Regular expression that returns the file suffixes for all files that
should be ignored by the IDE.
- Pserver Port. If the filesystem uses the
pserver
connection method, this
property specifies the port used to access the remote repository. The default port is 2401.
The properties available for CVS command-line filesystems are the same as those availabel for
all other generic VCS filesystems. For information on generic VCS filesystem properties, see
VCS Filesystem Properties.
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