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Bug 269453

Summary: can you preserve soft link in "import" operation?
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Miwako Tokugawa <miwako.tokugawa>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bill.hilliard, markus.kell.r
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Miwako Tokugawa CLA 2009-03-19 17:21:46 EDT
Hi.
If I import a project that includes a soft-linked file using 
File->Import->General->Existing Projects into Workspace with "Copy projects into workspace" on, the soft-linked file gets copied in so it's a physical file rather than a soft link. Can you consider giving users an option to copy the soft link instead?
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2012-12-18 14:06:36 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233019 ***