Eclipse FTP + SFTP + SSH explorer and version control
3 Comments// Posted in eclipse, How to by admin on 01.25.12.
FTP/SFTP/SSH
Last couple of days I was looking for a great tool to access FTP from eclipse. The tool I’ve found is far beyond my expectation. Name is Remote system explorer. You can use FTP and at the same time SSH as well.
To install RSE try this link. How to use RSE
Version Control
Version control is one of the most important issue when you are working with a team. It is also helpful if you want to track the changes of your project. CVS and SVN are 2 popular version control tools.
To use CVS / SVN from eclipse, at first you need credential to access a CVS / SVN server. If you can’t decide which one to choose, you can have a look here to compare those 2 version control. If you are interested to setup your own CVS server / SVN server try the following links.
Well now lets talk about how to setup eclipse for version control. Setting up and and using CVS from eclipse is quite straight forward. CVS client is already built in with Eclipse IDE
How to setup CVS repository and use it from eclipse
If you want to use SVN, you’ve to setup SVN client manually. You can choose either subclipse / subversive as the SVN client. I prefer using subversive because subclipse is too heavy and I’ve read couple of feedback about subclipse bug with SVN.
Setting up SVN client in eclipse
Now the fun part will begin. You can add project in CVS/SVN server, commit changes or update your files from the server.
How to use subversion with eclipse
Well, have fun and if you are not sure couple of key terms related to subversion and to know best practices for sub version have a look here
Congratulation you become a version control guru 
Cheero
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Hi there, I’m looking for a eclipse plugin (if exist and you know it) in order to manage versions on production environment throw FTP, in my case I have a project in a svn server and I use eclipse to deploy, but when I want to commit in the site, I just replace the old files with the new files, maybe doing a back up, but I think this is not the correct way to do it.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
Hello, i have some questions…
i have my PC with remote connextion to my project (with RSE) & i need to be able save this project to CVS or SVN (no preferences….)
in cleare i hace one server targer machine, my Laptop with Eclipse where i edite the code, & one more server with CVS & SVN.
when i create project, on my laptop, CVS project & specify targer folder through RSE, i’m loosing .project file, so when i close eclipse & reopen, for eclipse its not A CVS Project…
& SVN … hmm didn’t make it work corectly