Mounting a CVS Filesystem

To work with CVS in the IDE, you must mount a CVS working directory as a filesystem in the IDE using the CVS Mount Wizard.

You can use the wizard to mount a working directory that you already have on your system or to connect to a CVS repository and create a new working directory. The wizard also enables you to choose between the IDE's built-in CVS client and the IDE's support for the CVS command-line executable.

To mount a CVS filesystem:

  1. Choose Versioning Mount CVS from the main window.
  2. Step through the CVS Mount wizard to set up the filesystem. The wizard steps vary, depending on your environment and whether or not a working directory is already checked out from the CVS repository.

    Once you have completed the wizard, a new CVS filesystem node appears on the Filesystems tab in the Explorer. The CVS status for each file appears in brackets after its name.

    If you choose the IDE's built-in CVS client, the name of the filesystem node is prepended with CVS Client.

    If you choose the IDE's command-line CVS support, the name of the filesystem node is prepended with CVS.

For more specific information on using the CVS Mount wizard, see CVS Mount Wizard.

When you first mount a CVS filesystem, the statuses for the files may not be refreshed. To refresh the status of all of the files, right-click the filesystem's node and choose CVS Refresh Recursively.
See also
Creating a CVS Working Directory
VCS Support on Windows 95/98/ME
Calling CVS Commands
Setting a Relative Mount Point for a CVS Filesystem
Reconfiguring a CVS Filesystem
CVS Commands
VCS Filesystems Settings
Global Settings for VCS Filesystems

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