I have a similar problem to this guy: Importing/Exporting Project Preferences, but my problem is worse, I need to create a new workspace (i.e. new base directory) for every program or version that I work on. I have some common preferences (formatter, font size, etc) that I have exported to a file, which I then import every time I create a new workspace, but would like to skip the step of manually importing the .epf file. Has anybody seen an easy way to automate this?
EDIT: to help potential respondents answer the question, here is my workflow for handling a bug patch. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong in general that you could correct (since I’ve only been using Eclipse for a couple of years and tend to prefer emacs so I haven’t spent a lot of time learning new Eclipse features)?
- Create new directory for the workspace.
- Start Eclipse editor and open clean workspace.
- Check out a CVS directory containing .psf files for the various programs (necessary because of a pre-existing CVS tree structure that does not play nice with Eclipse).
- Use team import on the .psf file associated with the program I’m working on to pull in the necessary projects.
- Switch all projects to the branch tag associated with the release in question.
- Work…
copy your original workspace. Easy, reliable, but will also copy all your projects.