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Bug 316084

Summary:	On new Eclipse installation SVN can too easily lose project metadata
Product:	[Technology] Subversive	Reporter:	Miles Parker <milesparker>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Igor Burilo <igor.burilo>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	a.gurov
Version:	0.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Miles Parker

2010-06-07 23:45:34 EDT

Whenever I install a new version of Eclipse (which is often) the following happens about 25% of the time.

1. Install Eclipse
2. Install Subversive
4. Open workspace (whoops!)
5. Discover that all of my connections to existing projects are dropped :(

I am often forgetting step:

3. Import preferences from old workspace.

And then the only way to get them back is to overwrite all of my existing projects (hopefully I've remembered to commit them before the update!), which means goingto all of my repos, waiting for the downloads, etc..

But why should that be necessary? Can't Subversive find them when I open the project? Or is there something else going wrong here?

Comment 1 Miles Parker

2010-06-09 22:55:47 EDT

This also happens when I open any workspace in a newer version of Eclipse, even when I have repos configured, but if I don't have the exact same name, *even when the url is the same*. For some reason when I go back to the old Eclipse version I can at least reconnect but I have to pick every project out individually and go through the process which takes a lot of time when you have many projects.

Comment 2 Miles Parker

2010-06-09 23:02:22 EDT

Hmm... OK now I'm seeing that I *can* reconnect multiple projects but I'm pretty certain that I got a message before saying that multiple projects were not supported..

Comment 3 Igor Burilo

2010-06-21 05:09:05 EDT

If projects are disconnected for some reason, you can connect them easily by calling Team/Share Projects action and then select 'Use Project Settings' option.

Comment 4 Alexander Gurov

2012-09-07 04:28:33 EDT

1) in order to avoid disconnecting the project, the best way is just to open old workspace with the newest Eclipse IDE version, since they-re all backwards compatible
2) if it is not an option then there are always "autoshare on import" and multiple projects share.