Weird Subversion issue - tree conflict upon checkout - eclipse

Me and my collegues are using a svn+ssh repo to host our eclipse project. My other collegues have been using this repo without issues for about three weeks now. We are using RAD (Rational Application Developer) with Subversive for Eclipse to manage the source code.
Today when I checked out the project from SVN, every single resource in the project immediately got flagged as "changed" ( the arrow > appears in front of every resource ) without me touching a single file.
When I syncronize with the repository in the team view, every single resource is marked as conflicting, more specifically "Tree conflict". And this all happens without me changing anything in any file.
Override and update does not help, Mark as merged does not help. I tried reinstalling Subversion and that didn´t help either.
Any clues on what might be wrong?
For the time being I´m using TortoiseSVN, and it´s working without any issues. However I´d prefer to be able to use Subversion in Eclipse if possible.
All thoughts appriciated!

If it's working with Tortoise you probably need to refresh your eclipse workspace. Click on the project and hit F5, works for me.

Never managed to solve this issue. Ended up using TortoiseSVN.

I had a similar issue. The problem were conflicting SVN-versions. I had to install a different (newer) svn-connector and it worked fine.

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Eclipse hangs on reverting resources

I use eclipse Indigo, subclipse 1.10.x and javaNL. Whenever I try to refresh my project in eclipse, it gets stuck at Reverting Resources 0% and Computing Update Requirements 0%. I try to kill eclipse and reopen the project and it still does the same. I do not understand why this happens. It started happening recently. Before it was working fine.
Question: I do not understand why this happens
General Answer: http://www.ihateeclipse.com/
(I may share this opinions and dont think Eclipse should be called a IDE but that wont fix your problem - hence lets proceed with possible workarounds).
Possible Workarounds:
1.) Starting eclipse in clean mode How to run eclipse in clean mode? and what happens if we do so?. (This solved aprox. 80% of my continuously returning 'I messed up my own state' issues I experienced).
2.) If that doesnt help - you would have to stop eclipse, identify the according files (or just any files holding such information) and delete them manually, then restart eclipse. Like I still encounter issues with my "Search Type" (Ctrl+T) and have to delete the files like described here Eclipse type hierarchy not always working (unfortunately I don't know anything about files regarding your current issue - so feel free to downvote my "answer" since its not directly answering your question).
The best things I found about "the full reset" seem to be: http://letsgetdugg.com/2009/04/19/recovering-a-corrupt-eclipse-workspace/ or http://blog.pdark.de/2011/09/02/restoring-a-corrupted-workspace-in-eclipse/ (Note: I haven't verified the described behaviors).
3.) Recreate Workspace - delete any eclipse belongings like the .metadata folder and keep only belongings of your project (e.g. sources, resources etc.). Then create a new eclipse project based on you existing project sources).
4.) If Steps 1-3 failed consider reinstalling Eclipse (include above Step 3 in this process again) or switching to a proper IDE that can at least handle its own state.
5.) I experienced rare cases where in the end such things were triggered by me rather than occurred magically out of nowhere by eclipse - I don't see any possibility on how you could manage that in your case unless you messed around with the eclipse source itself).
Hope this helps - Even thus the SO community is big I experienced way better results asking the eclipse developer community directly when it came to such specific issues (you however oftenly get a link to a open Bug ... that they created because of your question) and ended up "just importing into a new eclipse workspace from existing sources" whenever I experienced such issues lately (It takes me about 5 minutes to checkout our sources, start Eclipse with -clean as default and import existing Maven projects solving any eclipse-only issue - while each of those eclipse-issues can take days to be solved without any further advantage for my daily business)
I don't know if this will help any one but I had the same issue. Some links advised me to delete my metadata, which I did not want to do.
What fixed it for me was:
I have multiple eclipse workspaces, I manually closed my eclipse using the System Monitor/Taskbar as it wouldn't let me close as it was hanging.
I switched workspaces and it seems to run fine. So I switched back to the one that was hanging and the problem seemed to have gone.
This worked for me:
Go to to your workspace instalation, and manually delete the target directory under your maven projects (dont worry , maven will create another one when compiling). This removed my stuck Eclipse state (thread) in "Revert sources", always at 0%.
this helped me:
delete files "*.snap" under org.eclipse.core.resources in
worskpace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/
and share project again (setup SVN settings)
I accidentally checked in target files to SVN. And the target files were huge ans hence it was stuck on reverting resources. Once I deleted those target files from SVN this issue never happened.But JBA's answer is pretty comprehensive so I will mark that as a right answer.
I have this same issue, and I just quickly cancel the "Rerverting Resources" task while it's in "waiting" mode when restart Eclipse.
This should work to 100% and helped in my case (no other tried solution worked):
Go to "Eclipse > Help > About Eclipse IDE > Installation Details
Uninstall the following packages "Subclipse", "Subclipse Integration for Mylyn", "Subversion 1.14 JavaHL", "Subversion Revision Graph", "SVN Client Adapter".
pluginsToUninstall
Go to the marketplace and install "subclipse" again.
Rightclick on your project > Team > Refresh/Cleanup
You are welcome. :)

Unable to install updates or plugins in Eclipse

At work we use Adobe Coldfusion Builder and got no problem installing plugins like MercurialEclipse. But at home I would like to use Eclipse itself, but am running into many many problems. When I try to contact http://cbes.javaforge.com/update it just says "Unable to read repository at http://cbes.javaforge.com/update/content.jar. Installing updates result in an endless ...pending...
What is going wrong here? I thought it would be the firewall. Turned it off, no succes. Tried reading all the articles about this problem, could not find my solution there as well.
Hopefully someone can pinpoint me to the right direction.
Thanx!!
Maarten
Are you using a different version of Eclipse? Try opening the transfers tab before you update and seeing if it's blocking on something like downloading content.jar. If so, the problem is that the repository only supports classic update sites, while Eclipse is only using p2.
As to solving it... I noticed this wasn't working on very recent builds of Eclipse. According to docs, classic is still supposed to be supported. I don't know if this is a change in behavior or a bug. Workarounds would probably be using an older Eclipse, switching to classic updates in Preferences, General/Capabilities, or possibly placing the plugin's zip in the eclipse dropins folder (eclipse/dropins).
I haven't tried these, but the Preferences seems most likely.
I'm using Eclipse 3.7 build I20110526-1708.
Edited
Yeah, you can tell that it's a p2 problem: http://cbes.javaforge.com/update/content.jar is a 404, while http://cbes.javaforge.com/update/site.xml works fine. site.xml is the classic update mechanism.
According to the wiki:
However, users will rarely have a need for enabling Update Manager, because p2 is able to install from any update site that was designed for Update Manager.
I just tried this out myself, and can verify the Capabilites workaround works: After enabling it, go to Help>Software Updates>Find and Install. Click Search for new Features to install, and add your site as a remote site.
It should successfully find the provided features.
As listed on the wiki, this is a workaround, and shouldn't normally be used. I'm not sure why it's necessary; I couldn't find information about it myself.
As for the dropins dir, I made a mistake: it should be a jar file, not a zip. The plugin's jar, which can be found by looking through the site.xml file. This is probably a worse workaround than the first, though.
It may be proxy related issue. Go to network connections preference page and in active provider select manual. Then select HTTP, click on edit and then provide the necessary details. Do the same for HTTPS also in the preference page. Then close the preference page and try again. It should work.

Subclipse: Updating Change Sets for SVNStatusSubscriber (UPDATED - clock sync issue)

I see this when digging into the error logs of Eclipse - I keep getting an error:
An internal error occurred during:
"Updating Change Sets for
SVNStatusSubscriber"
It happens a few times when trying to update or commit, and eventually hoses my local copy of SVN, and I'm forced to rebuild it.
Has anyone every encountered either of these or have any thoughts on fixing? It's a huge annoyance to have to rebuild SVN each time. I'm using Subclipse with Helios. Also I'm connected via FUSE/SSHfs to the project on a VM.
Did samba fix it? Have you tried using different client implementations?
Okay, so this is still not 100% certain, but it would appear that what's happened is that the date goes out of sync on the VM on occassion. During svn updates or commits, this causes inconsistent synchronization data and the client in Eclipse, confused, ends up throwing errors.
Because the errors cause an abort of the update or commit process, this leaves the repository in a very unstable state, my guess is that it tries to retrieve a name of a file but gets back null, and ends up writing this back to the .svn/entries somehow.
As I said I can't confirm that this is the only thing causing the problems, but it makes sense as after my clock went out of sync, pretty much all of svn was broken on the next svn up call.
Hey so I had a similar issue, and this seems to have fixed the problem (keeping my fingures crossed that it stays fixed.)
right click on the project to open the options then set Team->Refresh/Cleanup. I am using a local repository so not sure if this will help you.
This is rather old however it has been viewed thousands of times which makes me feel that it's still a relevant issue. I arrived on this page because I had the same question.
The steps to fix the issue are
Ensure that you have an SVN client actually installed. (ex. if you are using Catalina make sure Catalina is actually installed)
If you are using extra tools on top of your SVN client such as TortoiseSVN ensure that it's installed. Most tools have co-dependencies to the official SVN release. (ex. TortoiseSVN versions closely match SVN versions)
Check if SubEclipse is installed (Help > Eclipse Marketplace > Type: subeclipse). When you update your SVN client SubEclipse needs to catch up. If you see the Install button available click it, most likely it will update SubEclipse to look at the right SVN client
If you get a Working-Copy error go to the actual folders in question through your OS and right click on the folders and choose "SVN Update"
If you are still having an issue in Eclipse choose your project(s) and right click > Team > Refresh/Cleanup. Then right click > Team > Synchronize with Repository
Hopefully one of the 5 steps will resolve your issue. In my case I had to do all 5.
As a solution to this problem, uninstall the svn client from eclipse. Go to Help -> about -> installation details -> select all subclipse plugins and click uninstall. After this install Subclipse from using subclipse update site. Don't forget to restart eclipse / STS whenever asked to do so.
Doing so solved my this problem. Hope this helps in your case as well.
I had the same problem, after creating some new classes. I've fixed it after synchronizing with repository of the parent package. the svn error "Updating Change Sets for SVNStatusSubscriber" disappered.
Changing the SVN client from eclipse with restart or start eclipse with "-clean" option didn't work for me.
My observation is that commonly the SVN commit fails, when there is a collision in XML files. SVN is not correctly reporting and updating XMLs. I had to delete (move the res folder to a temporary folder outside project) the entire folder, commit, restore the folder and commit again. I have not tried, but I think automatic build for Eclipse should be disabled before taking update. However you can get the version updates from team-->history, from there you can extract the updates to a folder, to compare the updates are done properly.

Jump to declaration does not work properly

I use Eclipse PDT with Aptana. When I started working, I could reliably use ctrl-click (or F3) on method names or functions to directly jump to the declaration.
Today, suddenly this does not work any more for all methods, it just works for some. I could not find out for which it works, yet.
I have already refreshed the project (F5 in PHP explorer window) and started eclipse with the "-clean" option, but neither helped. Hyperlinking is actived in the settings.
EDIT: I am using Helios Service Release 1, Build id: 20100917-0705
What can I try to make it work again?
Did you update Eclipse?
"Remove files under workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.dltk.core.index.sql.h2
Kepler repository has newer version of h2 database. It is incompatible to older one.
See eclipse/plugins folder, there might be org.h2_1.1.117.v201105142352.jar and org.h2_1.3.168.v201212121212.jar. (don't touch them)"
Okay, it looks like it was a user fault. My fault ... I had too many projects opened at the same time. Now, when I have only one project open, the hyperlinking works quite well again. I will watch further, but I am quite hopeful that I can now enjoy the full functionality of eclipse again.
What did the job for me was this:
http://fsse8info.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/howto-get-eclipse-pdt-open-declaration-f3-working-again-with-php-files/
Closing unrelated projects worked for me too, I was actually facing 2 issues.
Both intelligence ( ctrl+space) and open declaration were not working. After clicking (right click->close unrelated project), Problem solved for me as well.
If all above solutions don't work and still facing issues with some directories. Then you need to make sure .buildpath doesn't miss any directory and have all entries like:
buildpathentry kind="src" path="dir/dir1"
buildpathentry kind="src" path="dir/dir2"
Your file has errors from classes missing a library reference. Right click project, Java build path, add library to fix reference issues, then the ctrl+click will work again

How stable is the git plugin for eclipse?

I was intending to have a play with git, and was wondering if anyone had used the git plugin for eclipse
I see it's at version 0.3.1, and was wondering if anyone knew how stable it was / any gotchas?
Update:
If you are using a recent version of Eclipse, your Help menu has an 'Eclipse Marketplace...' link.
Enter 'git' in the Find field. This shows me EGit.
This is also very high in the Popular plugins list.
Click install. Much easier than having to add update site locations by hand.
Github blog spoke yesterday about Egit plugin:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgit/
I'm using if for day-to-day work and I find it stable. Lately the plugin has made good progress and has added:
merge support, including a in-Eclipse merge tool;
a basic synchronise view;
reading of .git/info/exclude and .gitignore files.
rebasing;
streamlined commands for pushing and pulling;
cherry-picking.
Be sure to skim the EGit User Guide for a good overview of the current functionality.
I find that I only need to drop to the comand line for interactive rebases.
As an official Eclipse project I am confident that EGit will receive all the main features of the command-line client.
EGit is still in eclipse incubation. You can install it using the Eclipse update manager.
Select Help -> Install New Software...
You probably do not have the JGit update URL in your list of sites so in the 'Work with:' field enter this url: http://www.jgit.org/updates
Click Add...
You should now see Eclipse Git Plugin - Integration Build (Incubation) listed as available software to install. Check it and click Next.
Click Next and agree to the license and it should be installed.
You can integrate Git-GUI with Eclipse as an alternative to EGit.
See this two part YouTube tutorial specific to Windows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcM1xOiaidk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrPJClD92s
It still seems barely usable, to tell the truth, especially in comparison to the CVS and SVN plugins. Is it really GIT so different that developer with four years of CVS and SVN plugin experience should be completely lost with completely different GUI, unheard commands, two or even single word error messages and "features" like overwriting the shared repository without warning? Do not use it, use command line interface. If you do not like command line interface, do not use GIT at all.
Meanwhile EclipseGit is an "Official Eclipse Technology Project" (09-05-07 GitWiki). I use the current version 0.5.0 (the Wiki is a step behind the development) from time to time, without any problems. Version comparison, commit, revert etc. is working well, although manual refresh's (F5) are necessary when using command line or other Git clients (usual and acceptable Eclipse behavior I think).
For a command line view from within eclipse, install the Aptana Eclipse Plugin, it provides you with a console. It's an incredible productivity boost if you do a lot of terminal commands.
I've set up EGit in Eclipse for a few of my projects and find that its a lot easier, faster to use a command line interface versus having to drill down menus and click around windows.
I would prefer something like a command line view within Eclipse to do all the Git duties.
egit has a serious bug when comparing a file in your working dir with an earlier - it flashes a blank tab. The bug has been around since 2010 and still has not been fixed.
This very basic feature which works very well in svn plugin is completely broken.
I've used it briefly, but it was still lacking support in several important areas (it wasn't doing renames/moves properly, or something). There also was no update site available for it.
I don't remember which version it was, but this was like 6 months ago. Hopefully it is better now.
You may be interested in these pointers: http://github.com/blog/232-github-and-eclipse
There is also gitclipse(based on JavaGit), but seems dead.