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Switching CVS from Tortoise to Eclipse [message #94498]

Fri, 12 August 2005 23:20

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: radevenz.ix.netcom.com

I stay synchronized with a project's files using Tortoise CVS. Now I want
to use Eclipse and it's built in CVS.

Is there a way to create a new Eclipse project and have it utilize the
current CVS information maintained by Tortoise ? I'm on a dialup line and
don't relish rechecking out 50mb+ of stuff.

Re: Switching CVS from Tortoise to Eclipse [message #94557 is a reply to message #94498]

Sat, 13 August 2005 10:57

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: cneff.crosslogic.com

Richard -

> I stay synchronized with a project's files using Tortoise CVS. Now I
> want to use Eclipse and it's built in CVS.
> Is there a way to create a new Eclipse project and have it utilize the
> current CVS information maintained by Tortoise ? I'm on a dialup line
> and don't relish rechecking out 50mb+ of stuff.

Eclipse doesn't have CVS "built in". Rather, it has *support* for CVS
built in. You still have to have some CVS server up for it to connect
to. So, that should work fine as is. You just need to put in all the
server information into the CVS perspective in Eclipse.

Not having to recheck out everything is more problematic. If you have
all the code already on your hard disk, you could have Eclipse create a
project from that, but it won't know that this new project is connected
to CVS. This means that you can't do any incremental commits.

I think you may just have to suck it up and checkout the entire project
into Eclipse from CVS the first time.

-- Clayton --

Re: Switching CVS from Tortoise to Eclipse [message #95078 is a reply to message #94498]

Mon, 15 August 2005 16:17

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse3.rizzoweb.com

Richard wrote:
> I stay synchronized with a project's files using Tortoise CVS. Now I
> want to use Eclipse and it's built in CVS.
> Is there a way to create a new Eclipse project and have it utilize the
> current CVS information maintained by Tortoise ? I'm on a dialup line
> and don't relish rechecking out 50mb+ of stuff.
>

You should be able to import your existing checkout into an Eclipse
project. You might have to tell Eclipse that the resulting project is
shared via CVS - to do so just right-click on the project (or the
directory part that is CVS-managed) and choose Team > Share...
Eclipse will prompt you through entering the settings for your CVS
server, but it should not require you to re-checkout.

HTH,
Eric

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