Question

I have an eclipse project stored in subversion that contains *.launch files. The problem is each time someone imports the project, the ordering of the external tools corresponding to the *.launch files changes. Where is the ordering stored? Is it possible to store that ordering with the project in subversion so that on each import, the ordering is the same?

Answer 1

It appears the display order of the *.launch files aren’t random, but a derivative of alphabetically.

Example:

• FixClassPathForTesting
• Manual systemTest classpath
• RunMeFirst
• BAR-FullDeploy
• BAR-Restart
• FOO-FullDeploy
• FOO-Restart

I don’t know the rules, but it seems to group files if they have a common prefix and show those after non-prefixed files. (Notice “FixClassPathForTesting” is before “BAR-*”)

There isn’t a way to specify the desired ordering, but fiddling with the name of each *.launch file can result in the desired order.