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The "modules" file in CVS can contain an "ampersand module" as described in: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=CVS--Concurrent_Versions_System_v1.12.12.1:_Reference_manual_for_Administrative_files#SEC179 Eclipse lets you select this module, but you can't check out a branch or specific tag using it.
As a workaround, you can check out a branch by checking out from head and then replacing with a branch. I agree that it would be nice to be able to expand the module but interpreting modules on the client is not trivial and we don't have the manpower to so it. Patches will be accpeted.
FYI as the workaround described above, didn't seem to work for all our ampersand modules (I didn't see the branch name I wanted to select in the "replace with a branch dialog") Here's how we were able to "checkout" a set of ampersandmodules on a branch : 1- checkout the ampersand modules on the CVS-trunk first 2- export a team-project-set 3- edit the team-project set, replacing : <project reference="1.0,:pserver:my_cvs_server:/my/cvs/repos,root_module,amper_module"/> with <project reference="1.0,:pserver:my_cvs_server:/my/cvs/repos,amper_module,amper_module,branch_name"/> 4- importing the team-project-set (in another workspace) Looks heavy, but if you have many modules, the exported team-project set is useful, because you can relatively be reused for other branches
*** Bug 201336 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 77262 [details] Patch to fix bug 201336 This patch fixes the bug reported in 201336, but I haven't tested it against bug 117329. I added the function getRemoteModuleName() to the CheckoutIntoOperation class. This function was copied from the CheckoutProjectOperation class. Looking at the CheckoutToRemoteFolderOperation class it may suffer the same problem, but I don't know how to test it so I don't know if this would break anything. If it should also be used there, it may be a better idea to move the getRemoteModuleName() function to the parent class, CheckoutOperation, rather than copying the function in each class as I did.
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