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Bug 328337

Summary: bin folders should not be checked into SVN
Product: [Modeling] Epsilon Reporter: Steffen Zschaler <steffen.zschaler>
Component: CoreAssignee: Dimitris Kolovos <dkolovos>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Steffen Zschaler CLA 2010-10-21 07:18:25 EDT 
Hi,

Currently, the Epsilon plugins on SVN also contain their bin folders (which are completely generated contents). On my system, this tends to cause major headaches whenever I import Epsilon into a new Eclipse workspace for the first time, as Eclipse sometimes finds it difficult to delete these bin folders (for unknown reasons) and then refuses to build the affected plugin project. I then have to manually delete these folders only to have them recreated by Eclipse again as part of the build.

I don't think there is a reason for having the bin folders in SVN in the first place, so it may make everybody's lives a bit easier to remove them.

Cheers,

Steffen
Comment 1 Dimitris Kolovos CLA 2010-10-21 07:23:45 EDT 
Created attachment 181380 [details]
Screenshot of the SVN repository
Comment 2 Dimitris Kolovos CLA 2010-10-21 07:24:44 EDT 
Hi Steffen,

I've checked a few random projects in the SVN but cannot see any bin folders (see screenshot attached). Which projects appear to be causing this problem?

Cheers,
Dimitris
Comment 3 Steffen Zschaler CLA 2010-10-21 07:45:30 EDT 
Created attachment 181381 [details]
Screenshot of example plugins with SVN bin problem
Comment 4 Steffen Zschaler CLA 2010-10-21 07:47:04 EDT 
Hi Dimitris,

I think you don't get to see them in Eclipse as it automatically hides bin folders from view. I have attached a screenshot taken from my Explorer. I have opened two random plugins to show the bin folder. The overlay icon on it is from TortoiseSVN and indicates that this folder is in SVN (and has been changed). I think, this is the case for pretty much all of the plugins although I have not verified this.

Cheers,

Steffen
Comment 5 Dimitris Kolovos CLA 2010-10-21 07:55:47 EDT 
Bin folders don't appear in the web interface either: e.g. http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.gmt.epsilon/trunk/plugins/org.eclipse.epsilon.dt.exeed/ Could this be a TortoiseSVN issue?
Comment 6 Steffen Zschaler CLA 2010-10-21 09:13:25 EDT 
Hmm, strange. I just did a complete fresh checkout and the bin folders are no longer part of the SVN. I'll keep an eye on this and see if anything changes in the coming weeks. For now, I'll just close this bug.

Steffen