| CVS checkout of non-Eclipse project gives broken tree [message #51872] |
Fri, 06 June 2003 12:33  |
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Originally posted by: junkmail.stevello.free-online.co.uk
Hi all
I'm trying to checkout a large existing java project as a new Eclipse
project. Since there is no .project file in the module root, Eclipse
doesn't recognise it as a Java project by default, so I've tried checking
out into an existing Java project and also copying a .project file into
the root of the plain project created by Checkout as Project, as well as
importing a commandline cvs checkout from the filesystem into a new
project.
In both cases the result is that every subdirectory of the project appears
as an individual package in Eclipse's java perspective instead of part of
a nice foldable tree, and most of the JDT functions (java-aware searching,
compiling etc) do not work.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Eclipse seems like a great
tool for developing from scratch but I am not having any luck contributing
to an existing piece of software held in CVS.
Thanks in advance
Will Stephenson
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| Re: CVS checkout of non-Eclipse project gives broken tree [message #51923 is a reply to message #51872] |
Fri, 06 June 2003 14:19  |
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Originally posted by: richkulp.NOSPAM.us.ibm.com
When you check it out, do "Checkout As..." and select java project. It
will now be a valid java project. Checking into an existing java project
or putting the .project file by hand will work, but it is open to
errors. Better to let it create the project properly.
Though if the source is not directly under the root of the project, you
will still get compile errors because it doesn't know exactly where the
source is. In those cases after you check it out, you need to open the
properties on the project, goto java build path, and on the source page,
do "Add Folder..." to add the source folders containing your source to
the build path (a source folder is the directory just below the
directory of first fragment of your package, i.e. if your structure is
xyz/com/ibm/somefile.java
and somefile.java is in package com.ibm, then the source folder is "xyz".)
NOTE: VERY IMPORTANT - When you do the above, make sure, BEFORE you
check things back in, that you click on the bin directory (or whatever
directory(s) you told it to put the output into), bring up the popup
menu and do Team->Add to .cvsignore. If you don't do this, these
directories will be checked back into CVS, and they really shouldn't be
because they are build output directories. Once checked in you can't get
rid of them.
Also, then check back into CVS the .classpath, .project, and .cvsignore
files. This will make anyone else that wants to check out from CVS have
a smooth checkout.
Rich
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