Forgive a novice CVS'er question but I am having troubles getting to grips with CVS integration in Idea. Trying this out coming from a VisualAge/Eclipse world where things happen automatically for you makes it very difficult to comprehend?
This must be really obvious - but I just can't see how its done - If I am starting from scratch and creating a new project - how do I get it into CVS? The New project wizard gives me no CVS questions so I end up creating an initial project directory on my local disk - now what? I adjust project properties and add the CVS stuff (at this point I immediately don't understand why it remembers nothing from my previous experiements like cvsroot or username???? so I have to type everything in again - which seems a major pain). Now I have this defined what do I do? All that seems to be an option is the "Checkout" menu item - but as I have just started there is nothing to checkout, I want to check in? It seems to me that I have to use another tool like TortoiseCvs or WinCVS to do this initial step (but this seems bizarre to me, what am I missing)? Assuming I can get beyond this point (I have used Tortoise at this point) - I now have some other menu items enabled, so I create my first package and then create a class in it. Now what happens? Again the menus are greyed out - it seems like I have to remember to to go back to the package and choose add (??? why didn't it prompt me when I created the package initially - same with the class). It all seems very primitive to have to remember to go back and specifically ad things to CVS (especially when I created them in the ide) - even more worryingly, if I just diff - it only seems to diff against things I have in CVS, not show any new things I have created (even source safe shows this). I wonder if this is just all a brutal shock to the system where I am just used to automatic version control and everyone else using CVS has just lumped it? I can see that maybe I have a real culture shock to deal with (and it was all looking so good - but I can see a huge mountain to overcome to get our team to contemplate a move over to Idea). Can any of you guru's give some tips on this? One last point that seems mysterious to me as well - in struggling to work this stuff out - I would often go to the checkout option of a project and could never understand why it never seemed to remember the module name of the project I had typed in before (or even default to the name of my project in the first place) - I could have just been flustered at this point, but is this also normal? Tim --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 28/02/2002 _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
