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| <h1>CVS Repositories view</h1> |
| <p class="Para">The CVS Repositories view, which is part of the CVS Repository Exploring perspective, shows the CVS |
| repository locations that you have added to your Workbench. Expanding a location reveals the main trunk (HEAD), |
| project versions and branches in that repository. You can further expand the project versions and branches to reveal |
| the folders and files contained within them.</p> |
| <p>The pop-up menu for this view also allows you to specify new repository locations. Use the CVS Repositories view |
| to check out resources from the repository to the Workbench, configure the branches and versions shown by the view, |
| view resource history, and compare resource versions.</p> |
| <p class="Para">Here is what the CVS Repositories view looks like:</p> |
| <p class="Para"><img src="../images/Image242_repo_view.png" alt="CVS Repositories View" border="0" align="top"></p> |
| <p>There are two types of folders displayed in the repositories view. For the most part, they can be treated in the |
| same fashion. That is, they can be checked out from the Repositories view, etc. However, there are some cases where |
| modules cannot be expanded in the Repositories view even though they can still be checked out.</p> |
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| <tr> |
| <td width="9%" align="center"><img alt="Image for a CVS module that maps to a folder on the CVS server." src= |
| "../images/fldr_obj.svg"></td> |
| <td width="91%">A CVS module that maps to a folder on the CVS server.</td> |
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| <tr> |
| <td align="center"><img alt="Image for a CVS module defined in the CVSROOT/modules file of the repository." src= |
| "../images/cvs_module_rep.svg"></td> |
| <td>A CVS module defined in the CVSROOT/modules file of the repository.</td> |
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| </table> |
| <p>Like other views in the Workbench, the CVS Repositories view has its own toolbar. Toolbar buttons are provided for |
| refreshing the view, navigating and creating new repository locations. The toolbar also contains a drop-down menu |
| that allows you to filter the view by working set.</p> |
| <h2>Toolbar</h2> |
| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Home</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command redraws the view, showing the repository locations as the roots displayed by the |
| view.</p> |
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| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Back</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command redraws the view, showing the roots that where displayed immediately prior to the |
| previous issued Go Into command.</p> |
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| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Go Into</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command redraws the view, making the children of the selected entry the roots displayed by the |
| view.</p> |
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| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Refresh View</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command refreshes the contents of the Repositories view.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Collapse All</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command collapses all expanded entries in the Repositories view.</p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="Topic"> |
| <h3>Add CVS Repository</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command brings up the wizard to help you specify a new repository location.</p> |
| </div> |
| <h3 class="Para">Drop-Down Menu</h3> |
| <p class="Para">The drop down menu in the title bar allows the repositories view to be filtered by a working set. It |
| also allows to hide CVS modules defined in the CVSROOT/modules file.</p> |
| <h2 class="Para">Context menu</h2> |
| <p class="Para">From the context menu of the Repositories view you can perform a number of interesting |
| operations.</p> |
| <h3>New > Repository Location</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command brings up the wizard to help you specify a new repository location (same as Add CVS |
| Repository toolbar item).</p> |
| <h3>New > Date Tag</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command, available on the repository location and Date category entries, brings up the dialog |
| which allows the specification of a date tag that is to be added to the Date category of the location entry in the |
| Repositories view.</p> |
| <h3>Check Out</h3> |
| <p>This command checks the selected CVS modules out into projects in the Workbench with the same names as the remote |
| modules (for remote modules that are folders on the server) or into projects with the name specified with the module |
| (if the module is defined in the CVSROOT/modules file on the server).</p> |
| <h3>Check Out As...</h3> |
| <p>This command open the Check Out wizard in order to allow the configuration of how the selected remote modules are |
| checked out into the Workbench.</p> |
| <h3>Tag as Version...</h3> |
| <p>This command versions the selected resource based on the current branch contents.</p> |
| <h3>Tag with Existing...</h3> |
| <p>This command versions the selected resource based on the current branch contents, moving the tag from previously |
| tagged resources if required.</p> |
| <h3>Compare</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will compare two selected resources.</p> |
| <h3>Compare With...</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will compare the selected folder with a branch or version of the same folder.</p> |
| <h3>Expand All</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will fetch all of the subfolders of the selected item in one pass.</p> |
| <h3>Refresh View</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will refresh the repository folder tree.</p> |
| <h3>Paste connection</h3> |
| <p class="Para">Creates a new repository location based on the content of the clipboard. There must a valid |
| repository location string (eg. :pserver:dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse) in the clipboard in order paste a new |
| connection.</p> |
| <h3>Copy to clipboard</h3> |
| <p class="Para">Copies the identification string of the selected repository to the clipboard.</p> |
| <h3>Discard Location</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will remove the selected repository location. Note that all projects that were |
| previously mapped to this repository must first be unmapped.</p> |
| <h3>Configure Branches and Versions</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command brings up the wizard to help you discover the branch and version tags that exist in the |
| repository for the selected folder so they can be added to the repositories view to allow the resources that have |
| these tags can be browsed.</p> |
| <h3>Refresh Branches...</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command, available on repository location entries, allows you to refresh the list of known |
| branches and versions that are displayed in the repositories view for selected projects. This operation makes use of |
| the defined auto-refresh files for each project. If the operation fails for a particular project, use Configure |
| Branches and Versions on the project to select one or more appropriate refresh files.</p> |
| <h3>Add to Branch List...</h3> |
| <p>This command adds the selected project to the list of projects that are displayed under the specified branch in |
| the repositories view. This command only modifies the repositories view and does not affect the repository in any |
| way. If you want to add the project to a branch, you can perform a <strong>Tag with Existing</strong> after |
| performing this operation.</p> |
| <h3>Open</h3> |
| <p>This command opens the selected file in an editor. Since file revisions in the repository are immutable, the |
| editor opens in a read-only state, so it is not modifiable.</p> |
| <h3>Show Annotation</h3> |
| <p>This command shows the contents of file with annotations identifying the author of each line of code in the |
| file.</p> |
| <h3>Show History</h3> |
| <p>This command shows the revision history of the selected file in the History view.</p> |
| <h3>Properties</h3> |
| <p>Available on repository location entries, this command allows the modification of any of the properties of the |
| location. It also allows the assignment of a display name and a server encoding which is used to translate file paths |
| and commit comments between the client and server (but does not affect file contents).</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-27c.htm">CVS Repositories</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-27b.htm">Branches</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-27.htm">Versions</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-17a.htm">Local history</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-92.htm">Creating a CVS repository location</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-94.htm">Discarding a CVS repository location</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-93.htm">Refreshing the CVS repositories view</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-95.htm">Changing the properties of a CVS Repository Location</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-96.htm">Checking out a project from a CVS repository</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-103.htm">Replacing resources in the Workbench</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-117.htm">Sharing a new project using CVS</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-119.htm">Viewing a file's revision history</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-47.htm">CVS</a><br> |
| <a href="ref-32a.htm">CVS Resource History View</a> |
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