Projects that are managed by CVS now have local history and remote history managed from the same location. You can open, compare, and replace file remote and local revisions from the History View.
In one of the navigation views select the any file that is part of a CVS managed project.
From the file's context menu, select one of the following options:
Team>Show History....
Compare With>History....
Replace With>History....
Note that all of these actions basically have the same end result: the opening of the History View
with the revisions of the seleted file displayed in the table. The only difference between the three
actions is that some actions open the History View in a different modes. For more info see
CVS History View.
The history view will open and display the revisions available for the
selected file. You can control what type of revisions are shown in the table by selecting
the appropriate toggle button in the History View tooblar. The options are: Local and Remote
Revisions, Local Revisions, Remote Revisions.
You can click on any revision in the History View and:
Open: opens the selected revision
Compare Current with Revision: to compare the selected file with
the current revision of the file that resides in the workspace
Compare with Each Other: to compare two selected revisions
Get Contents: replaces the current workspace file with the contents
of the selected revision.