Blogging Roller

I'm still working with Eclipse and enjoying it. I do find that it gets sluggish at times, usually after I leave it alone for a while, but once it warms back up it is nice and snappy. Still, I have not totally weaned myself from VIM and I am not sure I ever will.

One thing that I find irritating with Eclipse is that it is difficult to figure out what files I have modified in my local work space. Sure, I can do a Syncronize With Repository and get a tree view that shows what files I have modified, but that is rather slow and cumbersome even for a fairly small CVS project like Roller. With WinCVS, I can easily see the files that have been modified as they show up with bright red icons. The WinCVS Flat-Mode is especially useful for this. It would be nice if the Eclipse Resource Perspective could use different icons for files that have been set writable, files have been locally modified, and files that are untouched.

My favorite source code management system Perforce uses change lists. When you check files out you must check them out into change lists. You can use these change lists to organize your work. I might have one change list for "Ekit editor integration" and one for "Admin UI security fixes." It is really easy to see what files you are working on in each change list and what change lists and files your coworkers are working on.

I know that CVS does not support change-lists, but it would be cool if Eclipse would make it easier to see what files you have modified in your local work space and what files your coworkers are editing.