[vassalengine-devel] New to Java + Eclipse, SVN & CVS

[Don L. <dl...@co...>]

Greetings, 

I am finally now making the transition (work wise) to java. At work we use java and eclipse. To learn more about java and CVS & SVN I downloaded a SVN client (tortoise). when I try to bring down VASSAL engine I am getting this error: 

svn: Can't open file 'vassalengine\VASSAL-src\branches\uckelman-dice\doc\ReferenceManual\images\.svn\tmp\text-base\shapeitem.png.svn-base': The system cannot find the file specified. 

I have svn down some smaller projects (and two medium sized ones) and at the end (via cmd prompt) it tells me which version was checked out. 

I'd like to 1) learn how vassal (and vasl in particular) works via java 2) learn how to better use eclipse and svn+cvs 3) eventually help out some maybe on this project. 

Is there any kind of documentation or could someone mentor me on how after you bring down the latest cut to make sure it complies in eclipse? 

On my test projects in eclipse I have been tryiing to import in the projects I svn down by directory, not sure if this is the standard or not. 

Any help, tips, etc. would be welcome for this newbie java/eclipse developer. 

Best Regards~ 
Don