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How to use Subversion with Eclipse
An anonymous reader writes "From the beginning, Eclipse included tight integration with the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) in order to provide access to change-management capabilities. Now, many projects -- notably those run by the Apache Software Foundation -- are using a different change-management system: Subversion. This article demonstrates how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE."
Fripple postino!
Subversion is great but you really need it only if you develop on windows.
For Unix I'd rather stick with CVS since SVN does not support following symbolic links because Windows(!) does not support symbolic links. (Quote from the SVN mailinglist)
If your project is small and does without symbolic links on your local copy, SVN is fine. But when you share code between different projects and came to use symbolic links in your local copies you rather should use CVS which will follow symbolic links on commit, add and update.
I wonder if there will be a proxy that includes a CVS server and a SVN client. That would fix this problem. Unix people could keep using symbolic links and CVS while those few who do Windows port can access the codebase using SVN.
There is the option to include "external sources" in SVN but that would require another repository on the server just for code that is shared by projects and it requires you to learn another scipt syntax in order to be able to write the necessary scripts for including these. Why should someone go through that when CVS is still available and still working and his prime OS fr development is Unix anyways?
It seems to me that Ctrl-Z fulfils this need rather well for me.