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Bug 345551

Summary:	Windows Symlink: Import Project
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Roland Schulz <roland>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Roland Schulz

2011-05-12 04:30:38 EDT

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Make symlink to folder containing Eclipse project (mklink /D)
 2) Import project from symlink
 3) Open Folder Properties

The Folder Resource location shown in the properties is the path containing the symlink. Thus if the symlink c:\sym\link points to c:\real\path and c:\real\path\proj is the project folder, than the resource location shows c:\sym\link\proj. This is inconsistent with the behavior under Linux. 

Under Linux if /sym/link points to /real/path with the proj folder being /real/path/proj than importing /sym/link/proj results in the resource location to be /real/path/proj.

A practical problem which follows from this difference is that Egit looks for the files in the wrong place.

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 02:24:53 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag.