How to use Subversion with Eclipse

An anonymous reader writes "From the beginning, Eclipse included tight integration with the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) in order to provide access to change-management capabilities. Now, many projects -- notably those run by the Apache Software Foundation -- are using a different change-management system: Subversion. This article demonstrates how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE."

VMS

[wandazulu]

This is the *one* thing (really, only thing) that I like about VMS...every file is automatically versioned. I create a foo.c, it gets saved as foo.c;1. I edit it, save it, then there's a foo.c;2. I can always go back and look at foo.c;1 if I want and diff the two. What's also really slick is that you don't have to specify the version number ... it always assumes you want the current version, but if you do edit foo.c;1 again, and save it, then it becomes foo.c;3 (because there is already a foo.c;2).

If any other operating system (preferably a Unix-based one)'s filesystem implemented this, I'd be in hog heaven. Reiser is supposed to have the concept of plugins, and I even took a look at the docs, but fs hacking is way out of my league.

You don't get *true* version control, of course...comments, checkouts, properties, etc., but just knowing that you can have an uh-oh moment and go back one or two versions is a real life saver.