Re: [Subclipse-users] Eclipse with SVN problems

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, <postmaster_at_tigris.org> wrote:

> I am having problems checking out a project into Eclipse even though I checked it in using the subclipse plugin. Any help is appreciated as I am stuck :)
>
> Here is what I did -
> - I created an SVN repository (trunk, branches, tags) on the server
> - I have a Dynamic Web Prject (working with no errors) that I created in Eclipse. I have the latest subclipse plugin installed
> - From my workstation, through Eclipse, I shared (Team->sharing) and commited the project to the SVN server.
>
> Till this point things are good. I could update and refresh the code base in that project.
>
> The problem comes up when I try to check out the project in a new directory. Even if I use Eclipse to check out the project, it wants me to create a new project. Why is that? Am I doing something wrong? If I create a new project and define the server environment every time I check out a project it totally makes no sense to have SVN in the first place. Please help.

I am not sure what you are trying to do in this scenario, but when you
checkout you can only checkout a new project. You cannot check out
one project into another project that is already in your workspace.

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