| .settings folder created in source location, not workspace? [message #509236] |
Thu, 21 January 2010 13:20  |
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I keep my Eclipse workspace folders separate from the project source code. I just created some project-specific settings for a legacy project (Java 1.5 instead of the default Java6) and Eclipse created the .settings in my primary source folder, not the workspace folder.
Is this a bug?
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| Re: .settings folder created in source location, not workspace? [message #509540 is a reply to message #509236] |
Fri, 22 January 2010 08:16  |
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Jim Garrison wrote:
> I keep my Eclipse workspace folders separate from the project source
> code. I just created some project-specific settings for a legacy
> project (Java 1.5 instead of the default Java6) and Eclipse created the
> .settings in my primary source folder, not the workspace folder.
> Is this a bug?
No, it is by design, albeit a not-always-ideal design. The basic idea is that
while the workspace contains machine-specific information (such as hard-coded
paths), the project settings are intended to be checked into version control
along with the code.
Unfortunately not all project settings work very well that way, and there is
always debate over whether a given piece of information (e.g., tab settings)
should be shared by all who use a project or should be specific to a particular
developer or machine. But that's the rationale, anyway.
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