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Using a separated source folder from SVN on Eclipse

So, here in the company we work with svn, and our svn server only have the source folder. When I use NetBeans, it's everything ok because I can add source folders in project and will work fine in svn. But on eclipse if i do the checkout from command line and add that folder in my dynamic web project, I can't see the svn history and nothing, svnclipse just does not work on that folder. Our structure of the projects it's something like this

Workspace
     Project folder
          Project1
             Project configuration files
          SourceCode
             Packages
     Project folder 2
          Project2
          SourceCode

I already try to make checkout using svnclipse, but he add alot of extra config files, he turns the folder in a project and the source folder is add as a link to another project, in this scenario the svnclipse quick diff does not work properly.

There is a way to use that folder as source and Svnclipse works on that ?

Sorry if my English is not so good

Solution

  • There is no easy way to do what you want. In Eclipse a source control provider can only be connected to the project itself. So options are:

    1. Use another svn client like command line or TortoiseSVN.
    2. Create a small SVN project with the Eclipse project configuration files that also use svn:externals to pull in your source folder from repository.

    With option 2, you would checkout this small SVN project from some other repository using Subclipse in Eclipse, could even be a local file:// repository and then the svn:externals property would also cause your source folder to be checked out.