Re: Eclipse: Delete Folder winthin CVS?

On 27 Oct 2005 12:06:32 -0700, mr_nice_1973@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "Why are you forced to use Eclipse?"
> My company uses Eclipse in conjunction with CVS. If you know of a
> better, more user friendly application that plugs into CVS, then I'm
> all ears.

The user-friendlyness is dependent on your needs, which I don't
know, so I can't help you here I think. I was switching to
Eclipse after a couple of tries, so I think my opinion is
different from yours anyway.

> "As far as I know directories can't be deleted in CVS, so how
> should Eclipse offer you that functionality as a frontend?"
>
> So you're saying I'm stuck with the folder forever? Come on, there's
> got to be a way to delete the folder.

I was solving that in the past with going to the CVS-server
and deleting the directory directly from the repository.

Problem with CVS is that removed files are stored in a sub-
directory "Attic" in a given directory, so if you remove
the directory, you're not able anymore to go back to a
revision where files from that deleted directory are needed.

It's a flaw in the design of CVS (or RCS to be more concrete)
not Eclipse. One workaround is to update only directories, that
are not empty, but that might lead to problems somewhere else,
where an empty directory is intended.

> Alternatively, what about adding a folder to serve as a new project? It
> would be nice to be able to just right click within the "CVS
> Repositories" panel and choose "New Folder/Project". But instead, in
> order to create a new folder, you need to create a new project resource
> by selecting "Project" under the icon dropdown located on the toolbar.
> After you make a project on your local machine, you then share the
> project, which places a "new folder " within the CVS repository. Damn!
> That's definitely a round about way of adding a new folder for a
> project within the CVS repository.

There are a full load of alternate CVS-clients, it's not necessary
to fully depend on the functionality of the CVS-plugin shipped with
Eclipse.

> Again it would be nice to simply click a folder within the CVS
> repository, right click and choose "new project" to add a folder for a
> new project under the selected folder. Likewise it would be nice if I
> could select a folder/project within the CVS repository, right click
> and choose delete folder/project.
>
> Again, Eclipse is one UN-user friendly application.

To be honest, I don't know any IDE with integrated CVS-support
that offers the functionalities you need. So it seems that there
is no "UN-UN-user friendly" application available.

Good thing with Eclipse is its modularity, so there is no problem
with implementing your own CVS-plugin offering all the functionalities
you need for your daily work.

Alternatively a change of the versioning-software being used
might help as well, e.g. subversion, where directories can be
deleted, the history of a moved/renamed file is not lost and
where you can add folders remotely from the plugin for Eclipse.


Regards, Lothar
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