Nick Ebbutt comments: I am working on a project which uses CVS for source control. I need to be able to work both at home (with no connection to the CVS repository) and in the office. This would not normally be a problem with CVS projects because adding and editing files locally does not require a connection to be made to the CVS repository (a connection is only requried when you do a CVS status or commit) However, when you add files using Idea the IDE seems to try to make a connection to the repostiory. I am not sure why it does this and there seems to be no way to turn it off. The effect of this is that you cannot do a CVS add on project files while you are offline and have no connection to the repository.