I completely agree. I did this just yesterday, and it was a pain. In the past, I had always worked from an existing command-line checkout. I think this would be a nice feature.
Also, I can't see an obvious way to do a CVS login from IDEA. Any reason why I can't? --Scott On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 08:41 PM, Chad Stansbury wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
