Eclipse CVS for beginners: How to switch workspaces

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You can set up multiple workspaces in CVS. This is useful for maintaining DEV, TEST and PROD environments, syncing them all to the project in the CVS repository, or it can be used to maintain differerent projects. You can also have more than one project folder in a single workspace.

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  1. Select Switch Workspace : Other from the File menu.

    Choose other

  2. Select the folder you want to use as your workspace for this project.

    Choose Workspace folder

    Eclipse will close and reopen, showing the new Workspace’s project folder(s) in the Project Explorer view.

    the chosen workspace