Using the Plug-In for Eclipse › How to Use a Workspace

How to Use a Workspace

A workspace represents your local working directories in the Navigator view. The project name is the root of a workspace, and a project is considered to be one unit of work.

To work on files, do the following:

1. Add the project folder from the CA Harvest SCM repository that you want to become your workspace.
2. Modify files in your workspace.
3. Save changes to your files for the workspace project.

   The changes are saved on your local computer.

Example: Use a Workspace

This example describes a typical scenario for using a workspace.

1. Navigate the Explorer View and use the Add to Workspace wizard to add folders to a specified location on the local file system.

   The project folder (view paths) appears in the Navigator view.

2. Update the files in the workspace using tools that are external to the plug-in.
3. Refresh (F5) the workspace to synchronize it with the client path and use Synchronize to determine how the workspace differs from the repository.

   The workspace displays which files are modified or new, and displays which files have outgoing, incoming or conflicting changes.

4. Commit outgoing changes to CA Harvest SCM, get incoming changes from the repository, or merge conflicting changes into your local version.

   The status indicators in the workspace dynamically update to reflect the results of these operations.