Subclipse "Checkout as..." (strange?) working

Hello.

I've just upgraded to 0.9.32 (Eclipse 3.1/WTP 0.7 M5 on Windows XP).
Doing a "checkout as..." showed me the new improved message box, which explained to me some useful things I still wasn't sure about.

If I understand well, when you do a "checkout as..." it happens three things:

1 - Eclipse creates the whole project structure, as the selected project type requests;
2 - Subclipse deletes the files Eclipse created in the project folder (except for .project)
3 - Subclipse execute a checkout into the new project directory.

I say Subclipse deletes intentionally files because I tryed same operation (checkout in an existing non empty folder) with TortoiseSVN and it doesn't delete anything.

If this is right, I don't understand why Subclipse deletes the just created files (other then .project). Why not to simply checkout into the project folder, eventually overwriting file which are already present in the repository but without deleting anything (not only .project)?

In this manner every type of newly created project should work fine with the "checkout as..." Subclipse command.
Actually in my installation (Eclipse/WTP) I'm not able to do a checkout of a web application, using the Dynamic Web Project offered by WTP: I get the files .classpath, .runtime and .wtpmodules deleted so Eclipse thinks it's a normal Java project! And I don't know how to recreate the proper project files once Subclipse has deleted them, nor I can figure out how to import my sources from the remote repository in a new Dynamic Web Project.

Could it be possible to change Subclipse behaviour when doing a "checkout as...", as described above? I think it should improve Subclipse usability and ease of project managing.

Thank you and best regards,

Fabio Da Soghe

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Fabio Da Soghe
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Received on Wed Jul 27 23:44:00 2005