Re: Configuring identical Eclipse/WOLips settings on multiple computers

From: Art Isbell (aisbel..ac.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 15:22:32 EDT

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    On Apr 21, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > 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.

            Thanks! That's the kind of info I was looking for but not finding.

    > For workspace settings, you should NOT copy the .metadata folder to
    > multiple people -- it's going to cause all sorts of strange problems.

            It sure did.

    > The proper way to do this is to File=>Export=>Preferences and
    > File=>Import=>Preferences.

            That's more like it! And a 100 KB preferences file is certainly more
    preferable than the 23+ MB .metadata directory.

            Thanks!

    Aloha,
    Art

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