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Bug 87633

Summary: check out from CVS repositories does not pick up .project name - uses folder name instead
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ian Brown <ian>
Component: CVSAssignee: platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Ian Brown CLA 2005-03-10 07:05:26 EST 
In the CVS Repositories view, I can select a folder in which there is 
a .project file and Check Out.

This correctly derives projects natures etc and correctly checks out the 
project, however the project name is set to the folder name that I checked out 
from, not the name as read from the .project file.

This is a real nuisance for us as we have common directory structures for all 
projects, and so currently all projects try and use the same name.

eg:

Project
|-Source
  |-.project
  |-.classpath
  |-com
  |-...

If I check out at the Source folder level, Eclipse correctly infers project 
checkout details, but creates it in a project called 'Source' - and gives me 
no option to amend it during the Check Out process
Comment 1 Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2005-03-10 08:32:01 EST 
Workaround is to use "check out as" and override the project name. You could
also create a CVS module and specify the mapping from remote folder to local
folders. Once the projects are loaded into the workspace you can also save a
project set that will make creating a similar workspace easier for you and your
team.

We have no plans to address this in 3.1.
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-03-10 09:17:32 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84808 ***