RE: cvs server with WSAD -- JAVA400-L

If you find the command line commands easier to use, then certainly.  The
only thing you should avoid is doing it from the same location eg.- your
Eclipse workspace.  I have read postings on the eclipse newsgroup from
people that create problems with the Eclipse CVS client when they use a
command line tool on the exact same files.

But you can certainly work with the CVS repository with other CVS tools and
Eclipse will not have a problem.  I think that CVS stores some files
locally that it uses to know what you have edited and that gets messed up
when you mix the clients on the same local copy of the files.

The reason I like to create the project first in Eclipse is that it then
creates the .project and .classpath files that it needs in order to know
what type of project it is.  If these files are not present, it will treat
the project like a simple project and not do things like compile your Java
code automatically.  But I also think recent versions of Eclipse have a
special method you can use to add a project to your workspace from CVS and
also invoke a small wizard to tell it the project type.  However once it is
added to the workspace, I do not think there are any tools to change the
project type.

Mark





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> From: Mark Phippard
>
> I would create an empty project in WSAD of the right type, like a Java
> project or Web project, and then manually import the code.  I imagine you
> would do an Export from VAJ.  Then in WSAD do Team -> Share
> Project and add
> it to CVS.  This will create a module for you.  I would avoid any
embedded
> blanks in your project name, as that will then transfer to the
> module name,
> and some things like the CVS Ant tasks seem to have trouble with that.

Thanks, Mark!  This is an excellent starting point.  Like anything, it's
those first steps that are really difficult.  Let me see if I can get this
to work.  I was trying it the OTHER way - importing the code into CVS and
then accessing it from Eclipse (I'm trying to use base Eclipse rather than
WSAD, just to keep it simple), but that was where I ran into the issue of a
module list.  Perhaps doing it this way will create it.

Thanks especially for the pointer on project names.  Those kinds of things
are just the issue that will drive a newbie like me insane.

> This will not get you your history.  Other than "simulating" the change
> process via export and import -- ugh -- I do not know how you could get
> that over.

If that's what must be, that's what must be.  I have a question, though:
can
I do this externally (using CVS command line commands) and then somehow
"resync" my Eclipse project?

Joe

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