Profiles are named sets of connection information. A profile stores connection information to different servers or different configurations of a server allowing you to use that profile to easily connect to a server.
For example, if you have 2 servers you normally connect to and each server has 2 repositories that you regularly use, you can define 4 profiles, one for each configuration, and to connect to each server/repository configuration using the profile, so you don’t have to remember the connection information.
To automatically connect to a server and then to a repository, you must use a profile.
Profiles are selected from the Connect to Server dialog, and are created and edited using the Edit Profiles dialog.