[Eap-list] New CVS projects

[Chad Stansbury]

Hello -   I'm relatively new to both CVS and IDEA, and am involved on-and-off with some Apache/Jakarta work.  I've recently succeeded in hooking up the IDEA EAP (515) to the Jakarta repository - however doing so wasn't all that intuitive... Basically, I had to create a blank project (with no source directory), modify the CVS settings, check out all the files (creating a new sandbox), and then set the project's source directory to that which was downloaded via the checkout operation.   I'm pretty sure that in the future I'll want to start a lot of new IDEA projects and will want to use an existing pserver-based CVS repository to create a brand new sandbox as described above.  Therefore I think that it would be really nice if IDEA's new project wizard made that process as simple as possible.  For example, if you could (on page 2 of the New Project wizard) have the option of specifying a CVS repository and module, the wizard could automatically detect if you were trying to create a new sandbox, and do a full checkout before step 3 (specifying source dirs) that would save a lot of time...   Is there already a way to do this that I don't know about?  If not, well then I think that would be a useful feature...   Thanks, Chad