Sharing a project with CVS

If you want to submit a new project to both CVS and to IBM® Rational® Asset Manager, share your new project with CVS before creating a new asset in Rational Asset Manager.

Before you begin

First you must create a new project before you can share it with CVS. Use the following instructions to create a new project in Eclipse: Create an Eclipse project

Procedure

  1. To share this project with CVS, right-click the project's name and click Team > Share Project.
  2. In the Share Project panel, select CVS, and click Next.
  3. In the Enter Repository Location Information panel:
    • To create a new location, enter the location, connection, and user information that is required to connect to your CVS repository environment. Click Next.
      Connection details page for CVS repository
    • To use an existing location, select the repository location and click Next.
  4. Select the name of the module for the project in CVS
    • Select Use project name as module name to use the project's name as the module name.
    • Select Use specified module name to enter a name other than the project name to appear as the module name.
    • Select Use an existing module to choose any directory of an existing module as the name to appear as the module name.
  5. Optional: In the Select a Tag window, type a tag to synchronize with.
  6. In the Share Project Resources panel, click Finish.
  7. In the commit window, enter necessary comments in the field and click Finish to commit the files. If you can see yellow cylinders next to the file names, then you have successfully shared the files to CVS. If you are sharing projects that contain assets, the asset will be listed in the commit window with the .project and .settings files.
    Project files with yellow cylinders indicating projects also exist in CVS.

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