| Tag Management
There are several issues related to how CVS tags are managed in Eclipse
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Eclipse needs a remote file to determine the tags for a project.
By default, the .project file is used. If this file does not exists
remotely, no tags will be displayed until the user performs a Configure
Branches and Versions and either selects one or more tags or picks
an appropriate file. This is confusing because the UI does not lead
the user to perform the configure.
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Eclipse shows all known remote tags for a project. The user can
remove tags using the Configure dialog but if a refresh is performed,
the tags will reappear. A filtering mechanism of some sort would
be beneficial.
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Eclipse currently only remembers tags for the root folders of a
repository. Some repositories are configured such that projects
are not located at the repository root. The repository view is of
little use in these cases.
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Some of the modules defined in the CVSROOT/modules file are not
expandable in Eclipse due to the complexity of the module definition.
Because of this, tags can not be discovered for the module. This
could be rectified if an auto-refresh file could be assigned from
another project (one that the user knows is in the module). This
problem would go away if all modules could be expanded (but the
implementation is complicated by an incomplete spec).
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When performing an operation on several projects, the union of
the tags are shown. This can cause unexpected behavior if not all
projects contain the selected tag.
- When performing a Tag with Existing, only tags for the selected
project are shown. An option to show all know tags would be helpful
for those cases where the user is creating a version or branch of
one project to match that of another.
Checkout
There are currently several menu options available for checking out
resources: Checkout as Project, Checkout As..., Checkout Into..., and
Checkout Module. These should be consolidated to 2 items: Checkout and
Checkout As....
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Checkout As should support the functionality provided by Checkout
Into.
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Checkout as Project and Checkout Module functionality can be combined
(i.e. all that is required is multi-select behavior for the Checkout
Module logic for it to provide both workflows).
- Checkout could be supported on files. The operation would either
need to create a suitable container project or allow the user to pick
from a list of valid existing projects or folders.
View Layout
The Repositories view currently uses a single view to show all remote
resource. Also, projects are grouped by branch whereas versions are
grouped by project.
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