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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Branching Tutorial 4: Create a branch

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    NOTE: This section of the Eclipse CVS tutorial is based on Paul Glezen’s article on the Eclipse website: Branching with Eclipse and CVS, and is used with his permission under the terms of the EPL license. The changes I am making to his version are mainly to expand it with more step by step images and explanations, and integrate it with my own beginner tutorials in an attempt to make it more accessible to beginners and designers. Experienced developers will probably prefer to work from Paul’s version.

    Now that you have created a project, the other people on your team should check it out from CVS. If they aren’t sure how to check out a project from CVS, have them view this tutorial then return here.

    Scenario walkthrough

    We’ll be following the workflow shown in the diagram below. This article will employ a scenario of two programmers, Paul and Wing, working on separate branches of the same project. 

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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 3: Import an existing set of project files into CVS

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  1. Once you have created a workspace, you need to add files to it somehow. If you already have existing files that you want to use in your project, you’ll need to import them. You can also check out an existing project from CVS or import files from a zip archive, among other possibilities.

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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 2: Create a new project from scratch

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    Eclipse Terminology-“Perspective”:

    The word “Perspective” is used to denote a window panel in Eclipse with a specific purpose. There are Eclipse perspectives for different functions, like the Resources perspective for viewing workspace assets or resources, the Team Synchronization perspective for viewing CVS synchronization information, and the CVS perspective for viewing CVS Repositories, to name a few.

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Beginning Eclipse CVS – Basics 1: Getting Started

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Eclipse is an open-source software development platform or IDE that has CVS (version control) functions built-in. Although Eclipse was originally built for Java development, it is very useful for working in other languages as well because of it’s open plugin-based architecture. It is often used as the foundation for new applications because it is so easily extended. This series will focus on the basics of using Eclipse for for version control, for web designers or beginning developers.

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