| Eclipse workspace in CVS [message #115545] |
Tue, 08 November 2005 11:20  |
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Originally posted by: Mark.Holtzclaw.meridianiq.com
I'm working on storing the state of an eclipse workspace in CVS. Has anyone
successfully
done this?
The idea would be for a developer to checkout the workspace (along with
projects) and be
able to start working on a effort without having to (re)configure eclipse.
It would also
provide a fallback state in case the developer hosed his workspace (which
seems to happen
from time to time).
Thanks
Mark Holtzclaw
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| Re: Eclipse workspace in CVS [message #116702 is a reply to message #115545] |
Thu, 10 November 2005 15:25  |
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Originally posted by: eclipse3.rizzoweb.com
Mark Holtzclaw wrote:
> I'm working on storing the state of an eclipse workspace in CVS. Has anyone
> successfully
> done this?
While possible, it is not generally designed to work that way. A
workspace is intended to be an installation-specific entity. It includes
absolute paths to locations within itself, meaning if it is checked out
to a different location than where it was created (for example, you
created it in c:\eclipse\workspace but then someone checks it out into
c:\myworkspace), then it will fail miserably. Workspace is also where
all Preferences are stored, and some of those will sometimes have
absolute path names, too.
Remember that the workspace is highly tunable to a user's specific
preferences, so it is difficult to have a "Standard" one that everybody
will use.
Finally, the workspace directory is written to often by Eclipse, so
you'll end up with lots of collisions if people try to check it in after
working with it for a while.
Something that might work is to establish a "baseline" workspace and
have new users grab that as a starting point. But that will only work if
everyone installs it to the exact same path on their machines and their
JDK installations are in the exact same paths - even then I'd recommend
against trying to keep it under SCM control like source code.
That said, I almost always check in whole projects (including the
Eclipse .project and .classpath files) - just not workspaces.
HTH,
Eric
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