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Go to Eclipse's CVS Perspective (Window:Open Perspective:CVS Repository Exploring) ... As delivered, Eclipse's CVS client is ignorant of the nature (ASCII or Binary) of certain types of files that you may wish to check into the repository. It is very important that you identify file types correctly rather than check in...
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Set up CVS or Subversion repositories ... Do not create the workspace in a directory path that has spaces in it - i.e., not in the default C:\Documents and Settings\... directory presented by default on the first startup of Eclipse. ... Should this occur, the optimal solution is to change your PATH so that Eclipse finds a usable JVM.
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Open the Team preference page. You will see a number of general Team options. These options can be used by any Eclipse integrated repository. In our case, they are all applicable to CVS. ... You can change CVS project settings in the properties dialog of a project.
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CVS outgoing change sets ... Thanks to the efforts of the CVSNT developers, the Eclipse CVS client now supports CVSNT. ... You can configure the console to display output using a character encoding different from the default using the Console Encoding settings on the Common tab of a launch configuration.
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Eclipse has a built-in CVS client that is deeply integrated with the Eclipse Platform IDE, which is implemented as a separate perspective (CVS Repository Exploring Perspective) for interacting with CVS. General Eclipse settings for CVS are located under Window > Preferences window > Team.
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Eclipse CVS plug-in (all platforms) ... There are different settings for different packages, plug-ins, and Eclipse-based IDEs. Look below to find the plug-in(s), package(s) and/or IDE you have and the changes you'll need to make. Note that you need to make changes for each of the packages and plug-ins.
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Change the Eclipse CVS settings (Window -> Preferences -> Team -> CVS -> Ext Connection Method: Select "Use another connection method type to connect" and select in the drop-down extssh (reason: Eclipse only uses SSH in CVS with the extssh method, but cvs.sourceforge.net only accepts ext.
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5 Using Eclipse and CVS for Java Development ... For instance, incoming change sets in the synchronize view require CVS version 1.11.5 or beyond to work properly (see bug 81960)
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Branching with Eclipse and CVS, Part 1: The Basics ... To to verify a tag was created, change to the CVS Repository view and expand Versions → brtest. The P1 tag should be visible.
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