| How to refreshing the overall workspace? [message #331705] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 09:04  |
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Hi,
if I add/remove/modify projects directly in the filesystem outside of
Eclipse, Eclipse does not recognize those operations. How can I refresh
the overall workspace making Eclipse re-read all projects and project
configuration files, add new projects and remove missing projects?
Robert
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| Re: How to refreshing the overall workspace? [message #331707 is a reply to message #331705] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 09:29  |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
Robert wrote:
> Hi,
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> if I add/remove/modify projects directly in the filesystem outside of
> Eclipse, Eclipse does not recognize those operations. How can I refresh
> the overall workspace making Eclipse re-read all projects and project
> configuration files, add new projects and remove missing projects?
The workspace does not work like that. It is NOT a direct reflection of
the contents of the file system, but rather a logical container for
Projects. Those Projects can be physically located in the workspace
directory, or elsewhere. Similarly, it is perfectly valid for a
workspace directory to contain files, even directory structures that
look like Projects, that are not managed by or reflected in the
workspace. For example, delete a project WITHOUT selecting the option to
delete the contents on disk. The Project is gone from the workspace (a
logical view) but the files remain in their original location. That
project can easily be "resurrected" by importing or "creating" with the
same name and in the same location as the original.
If you explain what you are trying to do at a high level, perhaps we can
offer a supported way of achieving that goal within the design of the
workspace and Projects.
Hope this helps,
Eric
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| Re: How to refreshing the overall workspace? [message #331746 is a reply to message #331708] |
Fri, 19 September 2008 09:36 |
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com
On 9/17/2008 9:37 AM, Robert wrote:
> Ok, I got it. Especially the "delete project without project content"
> example were very demonstrative. Therefore updating the project-list
> from workspace can not be done.
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> But there is still one problem left open: How to make Eclipse reflecting
> the changes to project dependant configuration files (.project or a file
> from the .settings folder?. This sometime happens when I retrieve
> project updates form the project SVN repository. I tried a lot for
> making Eclipse to notify and apply those changes but neither cleaning a
> project nor closing and re-opening a project does what I need.
Are you updating the files from outside Eclipse (like using an external
SVN client program)? If so, I have two responses:
A) after updating any workspace files outside of Eclipse, you need to
Right-click the project and choose Refresh to make Eclipse aware of the
changes.
B) Why don't you try one of the SVN integration plugins for Eclipse,
either Subversive or Subclipse?
Hope this helps,
Eric
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