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| Summary: | [CVS Watch/Edit] Readonly/Edit/Unedit Support | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] Platform | Reporter: | ObjectWiz <objectwiz> |
| Component: | Team | Assignee: | Michael Valenta <Michael.Valenta> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | crivet, eclipse, Kevin_McGuire, mhilpert, v.neubauer |
| Version: | 2.0 | Keywords: | helpwanted |
| Target Milestone: | 2.1 M4 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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Description
ObjectWiz
Using an external cvs client for edit/unedit support is not really an option since the edit/unedit mechanism is tightly coupled to other CVS commands such as update and commit. I have released initial support for "cvs edit" to HEAD for project org.eclipse.team.cvs.core. The functionality provided is very basic and integrated with the validateSave/validateEdit mechanism. What this means is that every time a file is opened by an editor or modified by a tool, the equivalent of a "cvs edit" is performed underneath the hood, so to speak. This will allow Eclipse to work with repositories that have configured projects with watches on (i.e. all files are checked out read-only). Here's what's missing from CVS core. 1) The format of the notifications stored in the CVS/Notify file are probably not command line compatible. I couldn't find a spec for the file format. 2) There is no progress monitoring for the "cvs edit" invoked from the validateEdit or validateSave callbacks 3) Commit does not reset the file to read-only (this requirs step 4). 4) The base contents are not cached in the CVS/Base directory and the base revision is not cahced in the CVS/Baserev file. 5) As a result of 4, "cvs unedit is not supported. 6) The watch commands are not implemented. 7) The format of the timestamp in the notification sent to the server does not match the same format as the cvs command line client. The spec says it's just a text field but scripts on the server may expect a certain format. In addition, the following should or could be provided by the CVS UI 1) Enable Watch/Edit support for all or some projects (right now it's on by default). 2) Access to Edit/Unedit through menu commands. 3) Mechanism to set temporary watches on an edit (could be a preference) 3) Ability to configure the Watch configuration of a project or resource 4) Preference to indicate that all or some projects should be checked out as read-only (equivalent to CVSREAD?). I think that's it but I may have missed something. If you want to offer help on any of the above points that would be great. The Team Team would be happy to offer help as required. The best place to ask would be the platform-vcm-dev mailing list *** Bug 252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I think it would be useful to have these additional features: a) Before performing an edit, query the current editors and if there is at least one, display these to the user, giving the user the option to cancel the edit operation. b) Add an 'autowatch' feature which will automatically create a watch when adding certain file types, in particular those that cannot be merged. *** Bug 13570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 25620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Code has been released to HEAD that provides Edit/Unedit support that can be triggered using popu menu actions of files or by trying to edit a file in an editor. Any bugs or requests for addition functionality should be logged as separate bug reports. |