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Bug 28215

Summary: Support sparse projects that check out resources on demand
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ed Burnette <ed.burnette>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform Team Inbox <platform-team-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: nikolaymetchev
Version: 2.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Ed Burnette CLA 2002-12-12 16:18:46 EST 
Eclipse requires me to check out all resources in a project and keep my local 
copy up to date with the repository. This can be thousands of files so it is 
time consuming to keep them all up to date. What I'd like to be able to do is 
check out only the handful of files I'm interested in.

Here's one possible idea for representing this: I'd associate a project with a 
Team CVS repository, and the Eclipse Navigator would show all the project 
files as 'ghosted' (or some other kind of resource decoration). If I try to 
open a resource which exists in the repository but not in the workspace then 
it would offer to check out and edit the file or just view it without making a 
local copy. Also when checking in, it would offer to remove the local copies 
of the committed files.

Note this is different from checking out resources read-only and editing them 
later because the local copy would not exist. We have a lot of experience with 
this development paradigm outside Eclipse (using a front-end to CVS and a 
builder tool) and it seems to work out rather nicely in practice. This is why 
I think it would be a useful enhancement to Eclipse.
Comment 1 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-05-06 17:18:58 EDT 
This bug has not been touched for 2 years. Closing as WONTFIX. Please reopen if 
you feel this is still an important issue.
Comment 2 Ed Burnette CLA 2005-05-08 10:59:46 EDT 
This one is still important for us. Not many people use Eclipse internally for C
projects because of it. Also it's going to cause pain when our testers try to
use it; some of our test directories have upwards of 2000 files when usually the
tester only needs to check out 1 or 2. Existing non-Eclipse tools can just check
out the 1 or 2 they need so it's a tough sell to get them to use Eclipse for this.
Comment 3 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-05-09 09:17:46 EDT 
There is currently no plan to address this item
Comment 4 Denis Roy CLA 2009-08-30 02:17:18 EDT 
As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.