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Hello, I would like to suggest to add the menu option "check out as workspace" in the branch or version subtree of the CVS repository view.... It xould be very convenient. regards Xavier
Could you provide more details about what you are hoping to achieve? Perhaps you could describe the scenario that motivates your desire to have such a command. Then we can start discussing potential solutions.
Ok, here is my scenario... I've an application MyAppli which contains several projects (bundles) as usual in eclipse... In CVS world, the repository contains a directory called MyAppli in which there are several modules CVS called with the projects names. So when I make a version of the application, I tag all the MyAppli directory in the same time. Imagine that I've versionned the V1.0 of MYAppli and that I want to make a development branch called MyAppli_maintenance_1_0, I would like to choose the V1.0 of MyAppli in the Versions subtree, and have then displayed ans stored the branch in the branch subtree. Once made, I want to distinguish my eclipse workspaces. The one where I worked is called Workspace_MyAppli_1.0 because it targeted the 1.0. Once realised , I've to distinguish this workspace of the one I'll use to make my maintenance releases. I would like to have also a new workspace for developping the 2.0... So my proposal is to have a menu option when selecting the MyAppli directory(in the branch, version or head subtrees of the CVS repository perspective) which proposes to create directly a new eclipse workspace called Workspace_MyAppli_maintenace_1.0 and another one called Workspace_MyAppli_maintenace_2.0 to well distinguish them... regards Xavier ps : I've had some difficulties to create my maintenance branch this morning ...
Thanks for the details. The current mechanism in Team for this is project sets. Another way to do it is to keep several workspaces on you disk and use the File/Switch Workspace menu option. That's not to say that the workflow cannot be improved but it's still not clear to me from your description how having a Checkout as Workspace would help. One way I can see that would help is to have some sort of higher level configuration management. Think of it as a project set manager that allows you to configure a workspace by picking one or more project sets. The workspace would remove any existing projects and then load the projects in the projects sets. Does this sound reasonable.
Created attachment 31873 [details] jpg of a CVS repository view
Actually, I have the current configuration on my PC : wksp_myappli_1.0 (version targeted) In the CVS repository view , I would like to select in the branch subtree (but could be done in the version one too) the MyAppli application, choose in a popupmenu "checkout as workspace", and then magically :) eclipse creates for me a new workspace on my PC , eg wksp_myappli_maintenance_1.0 which is of course reachable then by the "swith wokspace" command... Once done, I've on my PC : wksp_myappli_1.0 project1 project2 ... wksp_myappli_maintenance_1.0 project1 [maintenance1.0] project2 [maintenance1.0] ... I could do that too, by selecting a specific version(eg 1.0) and have the following menu option "branch and checkout as workspace)... This option would create the branch from the application version, and create the workspace locally too... regards Xavier ps : jpg attached
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