Sun studio and VCS integration?

Hi,
I can't find any information about what VCS, Sun studio can work with, I know netbeans provide CVS, SVN and Mercurial support, is it the same for Sun studio? Is there a documentation page about that, is there plugins, will netbeans plugins work with sun studio ?
Thanx

Yes, you are right, Netbeans provides CVS, SVN and Mercurial support (and probably
some other VCS, like ClearCase), and Sun Studio IDE provides the same support.
The Netbeans plugins will work with Sun Studio IDE.
Thanks,
Nik

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