http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=38430 Problem: when you are working on a large project, you don't necessarily want all modules of the project active in IDEA. It slows things down, so it's best to keep it only to the ones you're using. However, if you do that it's impossible to use IDEA's CVS integration to update anything that's not in an actively selected module. i.e. I have a large j2ee app with each ejb module added as a project module. I don't want IDEA parsing and reparsing everything in every module all the time, so I don't have the other modules in my sourcepath, only lib classpath. This means CVS->Update Project updates only part of the project, not all of it.... I'd like update project to run a cvs update on the myproject directory. Solution: a CVS directory update is needed somehow. Ideally a project would have a list of folders that would get CVS updated when you choose CVS update project. Alternatively, an external tool that allowed you to specify a directory for update (with IDEA's conflict merge tool etc) and bind it to a keypress?