General

On the Project→Edit Settings... dialog, you can use the General tab to define general project characteristics.

Each field has the following meaning:

Project Name:

New projects define their names from the project wizard. For existing projects, this is a read-only field. The name you define here appears as the root node on the project tree on the left pane of the window. You generally want to define the project name to be something meaningful to you. QVCS requires only that the name you give to your project is unique.

Location of your files:

New projects define the location of their work files from the new project wizard. For existing projects, you can change the location of your work files for the project by clicking on the [...] button next and selecting a new location for your work files. Work file locations are defined separately for each QVCS user, so this is something each user must do for each project that they wish to work on.

Location of QVCS archive files:

New projects define the location of their archive files from the new project wizard. For existing projects, you can change the location in which QVCS will look for the archives for this project by clicking the [...] button and selecting a new location for the archives. Generally, you will not want to change the archive location unless you first manually move the archive files from their existing location to some alternate location.

Reference copy location:

New projects define the location of their reference files from the new project wizard. For existing projects, you can change the location of your reference files by clicking the [...] button and selecting a new location for the reference files. A "reference" copy of a file is always the most recently checked-in revision of in a given archive. Generally, you define this location if you want to have a central, up-to-date copy of the work files in the project. All QVCS users share this definition; that is, User1's "Reference copy location" is identical to User2's.

You can leave this field empty, in which case QVCS will not create any reference copies.

Access List:

New projects define their initial access lists from the new project wizard. For an existing project, you can change the access list that QVCS will associate with new archives by changing the access list here. Clicking the [...] button will bring up the Maintain Access List dialog, from which you can edit the access list as you please. You'll want to define this to include all those people whom you anticipate needing access to the QVCS archives that you create. Your own user name must exist as one of the individuals on the access list.

It's important to understand that the access list you define here is used only to define the initial access list for any archives created for this project. It does not affect existing archives.

Date Keyword Behavior:

Use these two check boxes to select how QVCS will expand the $Date$ keyword, and other date/time information in keyword expansions. If both check boxes are left blank, QVCS will use the locale settings of the machine to determine the date/time format used in keyword expansion.

Enabling the 'Expand Date keyword as Universal Time' will cause QVCS to use a locale-independent Universal Time date/time format when expanding the $Date$ keyword, and when reporting the timestamp associated with a revision in the expansion of the $Log$ and $LogX$ keywords. If you are working with a geographically dispersed team, then using this option will make it so a single time zone is used world wide. (QVCS relies upon the date/time setting of each user's machine, so the value of this setting requires that users have set the time and time zones on their machines correctly).

Enabling the 'Use C-Runtime date format' will cause QVCS to use a locale-independent date/time format that uses the current time zone for the date/time.

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