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Bug 323085

Summary:	Ability to defining the place where local mylyn are stored
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Lars.Vogel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Lars Vogel

2010-08-18 16:21:59 EDT

Currently local mylyn tasks are stored in the .metadata folder, e.g. .metadata/.mylyn/tasks.xml.zip

It would be great if it would be possible in future mylyn version to define a place where the tasks should be stored. This would allow to:

1.) Share local tasks between workspaces
2.) Share tasks via version control, e.g. git, between several machines

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2010-08-18 16:29:08 EDT

This is already supported through setting the location of the data directory in the Preferences under Tasks > Advanced although this is not recommended and not safe to access concurrently from multiple workspaces.

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2010-08-18 16:33:38 EDT

Thanks. That is pretty cool & useful. May I asked what "not
safe to access concurrently from multiple workspaces" mean? Complete data loss?

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2010-08-18 16:42:36 EDT

Mylyn does not do any explicit locking of files (but relies on workspace locking) so results are unpredictable when the data directory is accessed concurrently. Also note that some state is expected to be consistent across files, e.g. to track incremental synchronizations, so you may miss incomings and such when files are changed concurrently.

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2010-08-18 16:44:34 EDT

This should be fine for me, because I want to use the same set of task on multiple machines but I'm using only one machine at the time. 

Thanks for the clarification. I need to blog about this cool feature. :-)