| [platform-vcm-dev] CVS synchronization problem |
This relates to problems synchronizing with the repository originally found in
Eclipse 1.0 VCM. The problem is with effectively empty directories such as the bin directory. I say effectively as there are .class and any other copied files such as
.properties .txt. With the default selection of .class files in the ignored resources a directory in the bin tree will appear to be empty and only the directory tree is created.
However, subsequent synchronizations show the "bin" tree as requiring catchup/release. A simple workaround was to add "bin" to the list of ignored resources. After a number of catchup/release cycles it behaved as expected. This would appear to be the best solution
as globally ignoring .txt and .properties would preclude their storage in the src tree. This gets more complicated in say WSAD where in web projects classes get put in the WEB-INF/classes tree. I checked previous messages/bug reports anw while I found some similar issues, there was no concrete resolution. As this was VCM 1.0 we were waiting for possible resolution in Team 2.0. Note that without bin or classes in the ignore lists it is easy for ther user to get into the situation.
The reason I am raising this now is that it appears to be a problem with the CVS support
in Team 2.0. I have a plugin project and it continually asks me to update from the CVS repository the bin tree even though no files have changed. Is this still expected behaviour or is is a manifestation of the same problem as in VCM 1.0. It seems that manipulating the ignore entries can resolve the problem.
Bryan Stephenson
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