CVS switch branch?

• Invoke "Update Project"

• in the dialog that appears select "Use Version: By tag" and enter the branch's name

Or check out a fresh copy - unfortunately Idea does not support checking out a specific
branch yet (Jira issue exists). So just check out from command line: "cvs co -r ]]> your-files"

Colin Fleming schrieb:

Maybe I'm daft, but I can't see how to do this - it's not something I've needed to do before. My team leader has created a new branch of the code, how do I tell IDEA I want to use it?

Thanks in advance...

Cheers, thanks for the reply! I'm not too familiar with CVS either, unbelievably this is the first project I've used it on. The branch stuff seems a bit fiddly to use, is it possible to have separate modules, each synced with a different branch? For maintaining multiple versions of a codebase this seems like it would be pretty fundamental.

Stephen Kelvin wrote:

Or check out a fresh copy - unfortunately Idea does not support checking
out a specific
branch yet (Jira issue exists). So just check out from command line:
"cvs co -r <branch> your-files"

Just define a CVS root with the branch and use that in File->Check Out
from Repository.

Ciao,
ordon

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If you're on Windows, it's worth investigating TortoiseCVS to help, too.