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In the Projects, Files and Versioning windows, CVS controlled files which have been locally modified are marked with a particular icon (a reddish-brown circle with a superimposed '+'. Files which are up-to-date are marked with a tick. It would be very useful if these icons could be applied recursively up the tree, so that a CVS summary of the state of a whole module, of a directory or package within the module, could be determined without having to expand all packages/directories.
Well, we can look at how Eclipse does this, but I'm afraid that it will have a performance impact. When the status information is not yet loaded (for the first time), the whole sub-tree would have to be scanned for the status information. Another approach can be to store that modification flag persistently and update it just when files are saved in the IDE, but external modifications will not be catched this way.
I would say that if you make it configurable to whether or not show these annotations, performance shouldn't be an issue. I would definitely like to have this option, since it adds a lot of additional usability in the version-control department.
This has worked for a long time now. Issue probably obsolete.