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Bug 156999

Summary:	[Import/Export] File/Import does not work if a project with same name already exists
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Christopher Lang <christopher.lang>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Wassim Melhem <wassim.melhem>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	wassim.melhem
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Christopher Lang

2006-09-12 05:47:00 EDT

Trying to import a project, "Existing project into workspace" (for example another checkout of the very project with a different revision but with the ***same name***) does not even show the project name in the projects list to choose from, after browsing to the projects root dir. 

It seems that renaming the project (to be imported) manuallay in the .project file can be used as a workaround but I am not sure if that causes other problems.

I give that one a "major" because I think that it is a common thing to checkout an older "release" version of a project and recompile it, while a newer version exists in the workspace.

Comment 1 Doug Schaefer

2006-09-12 10:48:47 EDT

Project import is done by the Platform team.

Comment 2 DJ Houghton

2006-09-12 11:04:46 EDT

There are 2 problems here:

1). When you try to import existing projects into the workspace, the projects with the same names as those already existing in the workspace are removed from the list.

2). Clients are unable to develop different versions of the same plug-in in the same workspace at the same time.

Moving report to Platform/UI to address issue #1.

Adding Wassim to CC. I believe there is already a bug report entered for #2 but I can't find it. I think its in the PDE/UI space?

Comment 3 Wassim Melhem

2006-10-14 02:29:39 EDT

issue #2 is bug 44512

issue #1 is a dup of bug 157885

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157885 ***