Friday, July 29, 2005
Net Beans CVS SSH Support working great now!
Sorry it's taken a while to test this out , but Roumen Strobl kindly commented on my previous Net Beans CVS rant that improved support was coming and available at that time on dev builds of 4.1. I had tried just after that to test it out whilst at a customer site , but due to me not entering the proxy server settings correctly (Note don't put http:// in front of your proxy server if you're not using an ip address) I couldn't get through to the Net Beans update center and thus couldn't load the new cvs nbm's (Maybe there is a way to separately download those outside of the update center ? if there isn't it would be handy for some corporate situations).
Anyway today I'm back in my office so gave it a go downloading the 4.2 daily build for 28/7 , I assumed the new cvs stuff would be built in to 4.2 , but it isn't so don't forget to go to the update center and download it (its under 'versioning') , it installs easily , you restart the IDE , then it rather unnecessarily asks you if you really want to remove the old vcs stuff ,
yes I do I've waited three or four years to get rid of that!
- to be fair the warning is there because the whole vcs framework is removed you now have a whole CVS menu now rather than selecting your versioning method.
Once installed it works just as you'd want it to simply select 'ext' enter your server name , user name , path to repository etc , and you can then check out / check-in as normal. As Roumen says there are some cool features I really like the diffing its very fast and has good use of colors to highlight differences.
I'll blog more when I've played around a bit more with it but meantime thanks guys its just what this developer has been waiting for from NetBeans!
Anyway today I'm back in my office so gave it a go downloading the 4.2 daily build for 28/7 , I assumed the new cvs stuff would be built in to 4.2 , but it isn't so don't forget to go to the update center and download it (its under 'versioning') , it installs easily , you restart the IDE , then it rather unnecessarily asks you if you really want to remove the old vcs stuff ,
yes I do I've waited three or four years to get rid of that!
- to be fair the warning is there because the whole vcs framework is removed you now have a whole CVS menu now rather than selecting your versioning method.
Once installed it works just as you'd want it to simply select 'ext' enter your server name , user name , path to repository etc , and you can then check out / check-in as normal. As Roumen says there are some cool features I really like the diffing its very fast and has good use of colors to highlight differences.
I'll blog more when I've played around a bit more with it but meantime thanks guys its just what this developer has been waiting for from NetBeans!
