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Re: egit problem with sym linked eclipse project dirs

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 21:37 UTC
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> To hack around Eclipse's problem with projects in nested directories 
> I clone a repo and then create a new top-level dir that just has 
> symbolic links to all the project directories.
> 
> However when I Team/Share with git using egit the resources become 
> untracked when displayed in Eclipse -- they still are tracked however 
> when I check from the command line.

I've seen this too, but so far not got myself to actually fix it. I think it has do with that we ask eclipse project for it's path end there we gets off track. Thanks for providing a good example that help "someone" to fix it.

Could you add an issue at http://code.google.com/p/egit/issues/list and maybe include a tar ball with a simple project displaying this behaviour? (with a note that the symlinks makes this impossible to recreate on Windows).

-- robin
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  5. Robin RosenbergJan 23, 2009
  6. Add some support for symlinked projects.Robin Rosenberg, Mar 11, 2009
  7. Stephen BannaschMar 12, 2009
  8. Robin RosenbergMar 12, 2009
  9. Stephen BannaschMar 18, 2009
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