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It would be much more convenient if 'Edit' was right on the 'CVS' menu when you right-click rather than under the submenu of 'Editing'.
There are users, who never use the Edit command and there are also users who use it pretty often. There is a possibility to change the order of commands in the Customizer (Advanced tab, "Edit Commands..." button). But we should perhaps reconsider the default layout.
Moving to CVSlite and since we do not plan to include locking I'm changing summary accordingly.
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As 68136 has been marked as a duplicate and there is no workaround from within the IDE I'm raising the priority. When other users have issued a watch on a file Netbeans get's really confused because the file is read-only.
Other than requiring users to install WinCVS or Cygwin I don't know how Windows users should workaround this issue. It needs reevaluating for 5.0 as it makes the IDE unusable
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A reserved edit (cvs edit -c) would also be fine.
It's good to have a CVS "Lite" with the most commonly used commands, but who decides what commonly used is? I like to check out read-only and use cvs edit to make explicit my decision to work on a file, then my colleagues can know what I'm doing. Also, it's the defined process here. Also, given that the find dialog often takes a while to appear, I don't know how many times my search text has ended up inserted in the file by mistake - r/o protects me from that. As a bare minimum, what about restoring support for using external cvs for user-defined commands, similar to the advanced support in vcscvs? That gets around the problem of making the file writable from within Java (until Mustang). It also satisfies the request for locking.
THis is a bug/regression in NB 5.0 so I've updated the reference.
This is a regression from NB 4.1 so I'm updating the type to DEFECT.
Whats the status of this issue, can we get a commitment to fix in the next 5.x release ? Without this feature users are forced to use external tools to gain access to files for editing which means you have to navigate the class hierarchy twice, once to open the file in netbeans and discover you can't edit it, switch to another tool find the class again and issue a cvs edit. For large projects this is a real pain.
We are currently targeting this after 5.5. Any contributors please check http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Netbeans/VersioningAidTeam. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 70639 ***