Re: [Subclipse-users] [Subclipse 1.1.10] Trouble with linked source directories

On 2/2/07, antoine.dessaigne@free.fr <antoine.dessaigne@free.fr> wrote:
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> Is there any way to make subclipse handle these linked source directories ?

The only support Subclipse will ever have is to ignore those
directories. That actually takes some work to do correctly too, and
until a plug-in can do that properly, Eclipse will not even let you
have linked source folders in a project. So that is why it is a
little confusing when we say we support them. If you read the Eclipse
docs for team providers, it essentially says "Hey it would be great if
you can actually provide versioning supoort for these folders, but
being able to just tolerate their presence and ignore them without
problems is the expected level of support from most team providers."

We will never support them because there is no way for Subversion to
know about them and understand them and we rely on Subversion for all
management of your files. The SVN Working Copy format is very
strictly defined. Subversion has a feature called svn:externals that
is similar in concept. If you use that feature, it is fully supported
by Subclipse and Subversion.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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