Creating a Custom VCS Profile

The IDE comes with profiles for working with PVCS and Visual Source Safe on various operating systems. You can look at the list of profiles by choosing Versioning Mount Generic Version Control System and clicking on the Version Control System Configuration combo box. When you select a profile, you can click the Advanced tab of the Customizer dialog box and click Edit Commands and Edit Variables to investigate how the commands and variables are configured.

There are also profiles available from the NetBeans website (http://vcsgeneric.netbeans.org/profiles/index.html), which you can install into the IDE.

If none of the available VCS profiles suit your version control system and operating system, you can create your own profile.

To create a profile for a VCS:

  1. Choose Versioning Mount Generic Version Control System.
  2. In the Customizer dialog box, choose the profile that you think most closely resembles the one you want to create.

    If you want to build a profile from scratch, choose one of the Empty profiles.

  3. The new profile appears as an option in the Version Control System Configuration combo box. You can then customize the commands and variables of the profile or create new ones to suit your needs.

  4. Click Save As and type a file name and config label for the profile.

    The file name is given to an XML file where configuration information for the profile is stored. The Config Label is used as the name of the profile in the Version Control Configuration System combo box. It is also used as the name of the menu item that contains the VCS commands for that profile when a VCS filesystem is mounted with that profile.

See also
Mounting a Directory With Version Control
Mounting a CVS Filesystem
Calling Version Control Commands
Modifying VCS Command Parameters and Variables
VCS Command Properties
Writing a Refresh Command for Your VCS

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