JDev TeamDev Feature Digest #2: CVS External Tools Macros
So here I am enjoying the holiday season in my home city (Edinburgh), slowly
working my way through a potentially vast number of turkey-centric meals, doing
unusually sporty and winterish things like ice
skating, watching the last film in a certain
trilogy a few *cough* too many times, reading another
trilogy that will certainly be committed
to celluloid someday, and generally not thinking much about work at all
:) Nonetheless, today I seem to have descended to some point of crisis with
the turkey sandwiches, and the "it's all very nice having nothing much
to do, but I'm as bored as corn-fed poultry" thing is starting to take
control :)
So without further seasonal nonsense, it's time for the second in the ongoing
set of blogs about tiny little team development featurettes that will be in
JDeveloper 10g production.
We've added five new macros to JDeveloper's External Tools wizard that you
can use when CVS is the active version control system. These macros can pass
information into another program about CVS-specific properties of the current
selection in JDeveloper's navigator (or the active code editor). The macros
can be used to invoke an external diff program for comparing CVS revisions from
the history viewer, or perform any other task that needs CVS-specific properties
of the selected file.
The screenshot below shows the five new macros, and an example external tool
definition that is used to invoke the cvs "annotate" command from
inside JDeveloper (the output appears in the log window).
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