ColdFusion Builder: Source Control

If you decide to go the standalone route when installing ColdFusion Builder, be aware that Adobe pares down the included Eclipse build in order to make the file that you download as small as possible.  One of the things that didn’t make the cut was the Eclipse CVS plugin.  My colleague Sam Farmer blogged about this last week, but my experience was slightly different, so I thought I’d add to the discussion.

In order to add CVS into ColdFusion builder, go to Help > Software Updates.  Sam had to add the Eclipse update site to his Software update sites, but the version that I installed (which I downloaded from the public beta site on 7/17/09) had the site already included.  In Sam’s experience, the CVS Client was under the Eclipse SDK category, while I had to go into the “Uncategorized” section.  Below is a screenshot of the trees that I opened.  I neglected to capture the actual CVS builds that I got–there were several to choose from–but I just chose the highest version number listed: 1.1.2.x

After selecting the updates, click Install, and agree to the terms of use.  CFB will ask to restart, and once it comes back up, if you previously used the same workspace for CVS in CFEclipse, CVS in CFBuilder will automatically attach itself to your projects.