Main Window

SmartCVS works completely project-centered. Each opened project is displayed in a main window and might have some belonging secondary windows. When the project is closed, the belonging secondary windows will be closed automatically. To work with multiple projects at the same time, you will need to have to open multiple main windows. You can open main windows manually using the menu item Window|Open New Window. If you open a project and in the current main window a project is already loaded, SmartCVS will ask you whether to open the project in a new window. It automatically opens a new window, when commands are processed in the current main window.

The main window is similar to the Windows Explorer: the directory tree to the left shows the project directory structure and the file table to the right shows the files with their various attributes. In contrast with Windows Explorer, the right part in SmartCVS only shows files, no directories. But it can be configured to show even files from subdirectories.

Below the directory tree and the file table you can find the Output view, where the output of the executed CVS-commands is displayed.

At the bottom a status bar informs about the selected files count, the project state and the progress of the operations.