[platform-core-dev] metadata dumpers

[Rafael Chaves <Rafael_Chaves@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Core tools have a utility called metadata dumper. It is useful for
browsing (potentially corrupted) metadata files provided by users.  It
allows you to point to some location in your file system and will mount a
tree with all metadata files it knows about under that location. These
files can then be dumped in text form. I recently changed it to support any
type of location instead of requiring a workspace .metadata dir as starting
point (thus allowing files in the configuration area).

The following types of metadata files are currently supported:

Runtime/OSGI:
.state (<eclipse_home>/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/.state) (currently
only in HEAD)

Resources:
.markers
.markers.snap
.syncinfo
.syncinfo.snap
.properties
.location

Feel free to contribute other dumpers/improve the existing ones. For
non-committers: patches are welcome.

Rafael