egit problem with sym linked eclipse project dirs

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.

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using v0.4.0.200901041117 of egit

I've got a large dir structure in a git repo in which there are many eclipse projects at different levels of the tree.

However Eclipse doesn't work with projects at different levels in a nested dir structure (bad Eclipse) -- see: Eclipse bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35973

When we work with these projects with svn we checkout each one individually into it's own dir to create the flat hierarchy Eclipse needs. Updating all these separate projects takes forever -- at least compared to using Git.

I created a Ruby script to create a new dir named 'workspace' at the top level of a checkout with symbolic links to all the enclosed directories that have a .project file inside them.

http://svn.concord.org/svn/projects/trunk/common/flatten_projects.rb

or here in the git mirror:

http://gitorious.org/projects/otrunk-examples/repos/mainline/blobs/raw/5c5ca6ff830f4ad3e4d427df92c1a5dff64831b5/flatten_projects.rb

(warning: repos are public but very big)

The result is a dir: workspace/ that emulates the flat project space that Eclipse needs:

   http://gist.github.com/4658 (a bunch of these are legacy projects)

Then I open Eclipse, switch to a new Workspace, select the newly-created 'workspace' dir and import the projects to work on.

This works fine for Eclipse. The projects build and reference each other.

But when I then turn on the team/sharing/git for each project ...

The operation completes -- the git decorator appears showing [Git @ master] ...

but the files are all untracked.

Screenshots showing the sequence after importing just 7 projects:

   apple-support, framework, frameworkview, otrunk, swing, thirdparty-jars

share projects:
   http://skitch.com/stepheneb/bbnqf/skitched-20090113-144412

select git:
   http://img.skitch.com/20090113-peu5y38a1yqm4kfqasf6hh9r9t.png

iterate through each project:
   http://img.skitch.com/20090113-k6wf8xgs2bc4ehy9siscdyteqr.png
   http://img.skitch.com/20090113-jughm7eatnuum43gfuedmctrw5.png

showing untracked files on master branch:
   http://skitch.com/stepheneb/bbnqc/skitched-20090113-144646

However from the command line git shows the appropriate untracked files after an Eclipse build:

$ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # java/core/apple-support/bin/ # java/core/framework/lib/ # java/core/frameworkview/lib/ # java/core/swing/lib/ # java/otrunk/otrunk/lib/ # java/thirdparty/phet-simulations-java/simulations/cck/cck # rails/portal/portal # workspace/