Lycia comprises a built-in CVS client which allows you to work with the CVS repositories and share your projects. The eclipse plug-ins for working other repositories are compatible and can be installed.Lycia provides a special perspective with views suitable for working with repositories, here you can check out, commit and update your shared projects.
Sharing projects
You can share a project using the Studio without any additional tools or software. To share a project you should just select the corresponding option from the menu and then select the available repository location. The project will be added to the repository and you will be able to synchronize your work with the work of the other developers. The structured contents of a selected repository location is displayed in a special view.
You can also check out a project form the repository, if you have a repository location specified. Thus you can work with a project shared by someone else.
Managing Shared Projects
Lyica Studio provides you with a quick and visual way of project management. A project or its part can be committed to the repository by one mouse click. Any changes and conflicts are displayed in details in the special view. This view allows you to manipulate incoming or outgoing changes separately, it also makes it easy to merge the changes and to solve the possible conflicts.
Additional Features
Lycia Studio contains also several helpful features which contribute to the efficiency of the version control management:
The history of all repository revisions is represented not only by the list of revision numbers and dates, but also by the previews of the changes.
The changes between the revisions can be displayed in a special compare editor which highlights the changes between the two versions.
You can merge the changes and solve the conflicts automatically or you can handle each conflict manually.
Each line of the code has a marker specifying the author of this line.