On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> I'm not impressed with Eclipse' support for multiple developers
>> sharing the same workspace and/or project settings.
> As you said above, .settings is per-project and is actually intended
> to be committed to version control. For instance, in Wonder, we
> commit the coding style preferences so that everyone gets the same
> style settings for reformatting, etc.
>
> For workspace settings, you should NOT copy the .metadata folder to
> multiple people -- it's going to cause all sorts of strange
> problems. The metadata folder is not just workspace settings, but
> also things like local revision history, etc. The proper way to do
> this is to File=>Export=>Preferences and File=>Import=>Preferences.
??? Where did that come from? I bet that has been there a long time
without me noticing it.
> Any failings in this procedure are most likely WOLips-specific and
> you should log bugs for it.
>
> You can also export Team Project Sets (I think is what they're
> called) if you want to share a set of predefined project checkouts.
>
> ms
>
>
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