Question

A newbie question (I haven’t really created new projects in Eclipse yet): I have a machine running Linux with a fresh install of Eclipse 3.5.2. I want to create a new Java project in an existing subversion repository (which already contains some unrelated stuff). So after running Eclipse I get this dialog to specify workspace. What is the best practise here? Should it be in subversion? Then when I created a random one, when I add a project it goes into the workspace. So if my workspace is not in subversion, where and how should I get these projects there?

Background: probably I will work on my own on this project, however I have 2 PC’s which I want to be able to use interchangeably.

Answer 1

What I usually do is put the workspace out of the way in ~/.workspace (invisible directory). Then I create new projects outside of that workspace, in the Subversion checkout directory.

You can create a project outside the workspace as follows:

• Create a directory in your Subversion repository. Your project will live in this directory.
• In Eclipse, click File; New; Project.
• Choose the desired project type; click Next.
• Instead of “Create new project in workspace” (the default), select “Create project from existing source”. The name is misleading: the source does not have to exist, just the directory!
• Click Browse and select the directory that you just created.

Eclipse will create a .project file and other support files in the directory you specified. Simply add all these files to Subversion, and you’re all set.