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Re: egit problem with sym linked eclipse project dirs

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SBStephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org>
Date
Jan 13, 2009, 23:27 UTC
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<p0624085fc592d385c7fb@[192.168.1.114]>
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<200901132237.11946.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
At 10:37 PM +0100 1/13/09, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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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).
Done: http://code.google.com/p/egit/issues/detail?id=52
Fxing this will make using Eclipse and Git together SO much nicer!
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  1. Stephen BannaschJan 13, 2009
  2. Robin RosenbergJan 13, 2009
  3. Stephen BannaschJan 13, 2009
  4. Stephen BannaschJan 23, 2009
  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
  10. Robin RosenbergMar 18, 2009
  11. Robin RosenbergMar 18, 2009

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