Team Synchronizing Perspective for Intellij?

Question

In eclipse there is a "Team Synchronizing Perspective" that basically does a directory diff to the cvs repository. It is very handy. For various reasons I am looking to move to intellij. Is there an equivalent in intellij with either cvs or svn?

Thanks.

Nomanomad

Intelli J idea svn support really sucks, it doesn't shows me oncoming changes and when I update it just blindly update and ruined my code with backup files. really sucks :-/ – Padlock

Answer 1

Yes. As there's no concept of "perspective" in IDEA, there is the equivalent — a panel called "changes".

IntelliJ IDEA 10 supports CVS, SVN, git and other popular version control systems out of the box. See the version control feature page on the JetBrains website for more on this.

Kiosk

Awesome, thanks! The shelving functionality looks really nice too. – Nomanomad

I can't believe there is nothing similar. I am having to run a diff on each file, which really sucks. I don't know, maybe I am overlooking the feature. – Scholarship

@mattblang I don't understand what kind of feature are you missing? list of changed files? – Kiosk

@IgorKonoplyanko Somewhere that I can quickly see all of the differences for a group of files (between my local and server VCS). For example, in Eclipse you can switch to the Team Synchronize perspective which will give you a list of all files that have been changed. Using that list you can quickly switch between the files to see the changes. – Scholarship

@mattblang check 'Changes' tool window at the bottom of intellij. If it's not there you should configure VCS for your project in settings. More details you can get from help: jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/changes-tool-window.html – Kiosk

@IgorKonoplyanko Sure, but if I want to check the differences I have to Show Diff on each file. – Scholarship

@IgorKonoplyanko I see now that you can navigate forward and backward in the diff window. That is definitely better. Also Ctrl + d is a shortcut for showing the diff, which is also better than having to use the mouse. I do still wish that it was exactly like the Team Synchronize perspective. Not often I will say this, but I did like that feature better in Eclipse. – Scholarship

@mattblang also in 'Local changes' panel you can click on 'Preview Diff' icon. There will appear small diff window for every selected changed file. – Kiosk

let us continue this discussion in chat – Scholarship

Answer 2

for IntelliJ , in the "changes" or "version control", there is a tab that name is "incoming". you can see the list of you need updating...

sorry, my English is so weak.

Dobson

Answer 3

Scratch my old answer. You just need to right click whatever folders or files you want to commit and choose commit from the context menu, then you will get a new window where you can review changes before they are actually committed to the server.

Scholarship

Yes, but you do not see incoming changes in that dialog like you did in eclipse, or do you? – Osis