To work with CVS in the IDE, you must mount a CVS working directory as a filesystem in the IDE using the New CVS wizard.
You can use the wizard to mount a working directory that you already have on your system or to connect to a CVS repository and create a new working directory. The wizard also enables you to choose between the IDE's built-in CVS client and the IDE's support for the CVS command-line executable.
To mount a CVS filesystem:
The wizard steps vary depending on your environment and whether a working directory is already checked out from the CVS repository. For specific information about using the New CVS wizard, see New CVS Wizard.
Once you have completed the wizard, a new CVS filesystem node appears on the Filesystems tab in the Explorer with the CVS status for each file in brackets after the file name:
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When you first mount a CVS filesystem, the statuses
for the files might need to be refreshed. To refresh the status of all the files,
right-click the filesystem's node and choose CVS ![]() |