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


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