Integrating Version Control Commands

If you already use a version control system for your sources, you can integrate that system's commands into the IDE workflow.

In NetBeans IDE 5.0, support for working with CVS is built in. If you already have sources checked out from a CVS repository, that IDE recognizes this fact and provides you with a menu of CVS commands that you can use on the sources.

In addition, this CVS support is integrated with the IDE's project system. You can version IDE project metadata and easily check out IDE projects that other people have added to the repository.

See Chapter 4 for information on getting the most out of the IDE's version control support.

NetBeans IDE 5.0 comes with built-in support only for CVS. "Generic" support for other version control systems is available from the IDE's Update Center, although this support is not as tightly coupled with the IDE's project system as the built-in CVS support. Built-in support for other version control systems is planned for future releases.