How to display VCS path besides project name in NetBeans?

Question

In Eclipse there are options to configure the display of specific information related to a version control system like Subversion or Git as 'label decoration' besides the project name within its Navigator view.

Is there something similar available in NetBeans?

Answer 1

You can enable scm branch information in the project name:

View -> Show versioning labels

Answer 2

I realized now that it is possible to display such decorations via the menu View > Show Versioning Labels.

The labels can be adjusted within Tools > Options > Team > Versioning > <version control system> > <version control system> Status Labels.

Some description to this can be found in the NetBeans documentation.

To get labels similar to the default ones in Eclipse I entered this as format:

{commit_revision} {date} {author} {folder}

In the options dialog this looks like this:

To further define how branches are displayed, you need to click on Define {folder}...

In the opening dialog I added the following entries:

.*?/(?<!/src/.{1,200})((branches|tags)/.+?)(/.*)?   \1
.*?/(?<!/src/.{1,200})trunk/.+                      trunk

See how it's looking in the dialog:

This will display 'branches/foo' and 'tags/bar' for branches and tags and 'trunk' for the trunk.

Within the Projects view this will then look like this: