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The users of CVS usually either use the "cvs edit" feature regularly or don't care about it at all. For those who use it, there should be a better support: - more prominent position of "cvs edit" and "cvs unedit" commands, - extended file annotation like [status; version; editors]. This enhancement was proposed on nbusers (see http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=377075&listName=nbusers).
Created attachment 7374 [details] What about this new command ?
If you chain it with refresh and edit commands, it works as Jeff requested. It uses one free index slot for additional attribute.
Thanks Jiri for the fast patch submission! I'll add support for editors annotation to the Refresh and Refresh Recursively commands on folders as soon as I get some time for this. It would be handy to change the popup menu a little as well, thus I'll probably add a new checkbox for editing stuff into the CVS customizer.
The total lack of CVS edit support in NB 5.0 makes the IDE CVS unusable for our project (Project Looking Glass). Our community members make extensive use of cvs watch which causes the files to be checked out read-only. There is no way in the IDE to gain write access to such files, forcing the user to resort to the command line or find another IDE. This is a critical ommission from 5.0
paulby, this is a wrong issue. The correct one is issue #40809. The cvs edit actually *is* implemented in a cvs profile for vcsgeneric module, which is available at the Update Center. If you install the CVS profile from there, you get support for almost all CVS commands and options.