When enabled, CVS will decorate resources in Workbench views with icon and label decorations that indicate the CVS state of the resource.
To enable the CVS decorations:
General > Appearance > Label Decorations
preference page. This page allows the enabling and disabling of all decorations
defined by different plug-ins in the Workbench.Note: In some cases, the decorations may not appear immediately due to the fact that they are expensive to compute. In those cases, they are calculated in the background.
To configure the CVS decorations:
Team > CVS > Label Decorations
preference page. This page allows the configuration of how decorations appear on CVS
projects, folders and files.Note: Under the General tab is an option to disable the deep dirty decoration of folders. This will make decorator determination more efficient but will make it harder to find dirty resources in one of the navigation views. Under the Synchronize View tab, the Synchronize view can be configured to show the synchronization state of a resource as part of the text label displayed in the Structure Compare pane.
You can also change the color and font of items based on the item's CVS state. To set the color and font:
Team > CVS > Label Decorations
preference page.
General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page.
Team > CVS > Label Decorations
preference page to preview the changes.
Team programming with CVS
Synchronizing with a CVS repository

Checking out a project from a CVS repository
Sharing a new project using CVS