Hello, there, I am just joining this group. I am working for a state agency's IT operation that is a worst practices kind of place. I am attempting to drag them into the 1980s, and perhaps from there, into the 1990s.
We currently use MyEclipse 9 for development, with subclipse and Subversion for source control. We make NO use of branching; all development is on the trunk, and there is no use of tags to keep track of revisions of our application. (I could tell you how we develop software in detail, but the horror of it all would be too painful, and irrelevant to my question.) Previously, I have used SCCS, RCS, SourceSafe, and ClearCase, and none of these were from inside an IDE, so parts of this process are new to me. I have figured out what I need to do to create branches, rebase from trunk to branch, merge from branch back to trunk. From inside MyEclipse, this was a bit less obvious than I had hoped, but with a little experimentation, I have figured it out. Now, I have one remaining problem: I can create a tag just fine: right click on a package in Package Explorer, Team, Tag, and enter a tag name. If I understand tags correctly, they are roughly equivalent to a label in ClearCase--they identify a particular collection of revisions that are not going to change. Typically, you use tags to indicate V1.2, V1.2.1, V1.2.2, V1.3, V2.0, V.2.0.1 and so on. This allows you to load a particular version's files into MyEclipse so that you can debug version that is now in the field, and is misbehaving. Here's my problem: how, in MyEclipse, do I say, "load a particular tag's collection of files"? I thought that it might be Team, Switch, then browse to a particular tag. But that does not seem to work. I can see the repository; I can see trunk, branches, and tags folders in that repository. The first time that I browse to the repository, the tags folder has a + sign before it, and if I click the + sign to expand it, I VERY briefly see the tags--and then they disappear. And the + sign before tags folder disappears as well.
