The .factorypath file is a generated file, which eclipse requires for annotation-processing. The m2eclipse plugin does generate this file when using "Update Maven Project" (Alt+F5) and checking "Update project configuration from pom.xml".
However, I don't want to check this file into version control. But if not, and someone from the team does a fresh checkout, and imports the project in eclipse, the .factorypath does not get generated until the "Update Maven Project" is performed manually. I don't want this manual step when a project gets imported, this has to happen automatically. Is there an option, that a project has to be updated upon import?
Since this is an IDE related question, and you seem to be using Eclipse IDE:
Menu Window > Preferences > Maven > Automatically update Maven projects configuration .
This will make it for you on project import so you would not need that manual step anymore.
Assuming your real issue is
I don't want to check this file into version control.
Though you have not specified which version control you are using but if you are a GIT or SVN user, you need to add files/directories pattern in GIT ignore file or SVN ignore properties.
Read more on GIT Ignore or SVN Ignore.
I'm trying to import a Java project from my teams subversion repository. So I go through the import GUI for subversion, select my repository and the project, then choose to check it out as a project into the workspace.
However, the project now appears in my workspace simply as a folder:
Trying to add a new class tells me "source folder is not a java project". Is there something I am missing? Thanks.
Check out as a project only does what you want if you have checked-in the Eclipse .project, .classpath files etc. In that scenario those files get checked out and configure the Eclipse project. Otherwise you are just getting an Eclipse "Simple Project" which does not have the Java tools configured.
I assume you do not have those Eclipse files in your repository, so you want to use the other option that lets you run the Eclipse Create Project wizard as part of the checkout. This lets you choose the project type and setup some of the configuration. You can skip most of the configuration since you can also do that after the checkout finishes if you prefer.
See: Subclipse Checkout Documentation
I have a folder (it also has subfolders, containing many java files) on my local hard disk.
This folder was checked out from my svn repository. I can do all the svn commands in that folder.
Now i am using Eclipse, is there a way for me to "import" that folder, and so that for all the changes I made in the Eclipse editor on those files will be reflected as well?
My question is same as How to import an already checked out svn repository into Eclipse?
BUT, the answer, I am not able to get, such as "import..." then "share...", can someone please elaborate these two steps?
If i do "import..." -> "General" -> "existing project"
BUT i don't get it, the folder i want to import is NOT an ECLIPSE PROJECT, so should i still go with this route?
or should I do "Import..." -> "General"-> "file system"? but it requires me to create a project first in eclipse, so i don't think i should go that path
here is what i awant to archive at the end
1. For the folder i want to import, i want to be able to do all the svn stuff, such as commit, update,etc
2. the file i edit in the eclipse, should be the same file in the folder i checked out from svn
please help....
"import..." -> "General" -> "existing project" (Browse for the project which u have checked out into ur local hard disk)
then in that window down there is a checkbox to select "copy projects into workspace" => uncheck this option.
this will have project in Eclipse and local existing folder that has been SVN checked out where u can
1. For the folder u want to import, u want to be able to do all the svn stuff, such as commit, update,etc
2. the file u edit in the eclipse, should be the same file in the folder u checked out from svn.
cheers.. this will work!!
For anyone that has tried all of the suggestions dealing with importing projects and find that it still doesn't work, you may have a mis-configured connector.
Go to Window -> Preferences -> Team -> SVN -> SVN Connector. Make sure the version of the SVN Connector matches the version of SVN you have checked out the code with.
For example, if your connector is configured for svn 1.7.x, and the source is checked out with 1.8.x, then Eclipse will not recognize your SVN repository. If you don't have the right SVN Connector version installed and can't convince Eclipse to install it automatically, you might want to go to the SVNKit web site for further instructions.
Once you have the proper SVN Connector specified, go back and try to Share Project (or Share Projects), or remove and re-import the existing projects.
I was able to "import" a folder without .project-file:
File -> new -> Project... -> General -> Project
Then you have to chose the Location (untick "Use default location" and press the "Browse..." Button):
Press "Finish" and you get the Project in eclipse with SVN History. Also eclipse adds the ".project" file.
I have used Subclipse, a Subversion plugin for Eclipse, in the past and it has always just worked on install but not now. I added it to my Eclipse Helios and it is not identifying any of my files that are under source control as such. It gives the message "Resource not managed" when I inspect a file I know is managed in the SVN Properties view.
I have verified that SVN is checked under Preferences > General > Appearance > Label Decorations and the settings under Preferences > Team > SVN look reasonable.
I am using Subclipse 1.6.13 and Eclipse 3.6.0.
Any Ideas?
Two of my eclipse projects had some kind of problem, I deleted them from the package explorer (did not delete the project files just removed from package explorer) then imported them back in (File > import) and everything was fine. Nothing to do with helios.
There's some discussion here to the effect that it has to do with Eclipse + user permissions. I can't verify personally, as I haven't fiddled with Helios yet.
That in mind, my answer is: if you aren't using some vital feature of Helios, don't migrate from Galileo (or older) yet.
The quality of the SVN implementation - both Subclipse and Subversive leaves a lot to be desired - the latter being the lesser evil in my experience.
For me the only way to get a folder to be noticed (get the little ? icon) so that 'Add to version control' was working was to 'Right Click > Team > Disconnect' and then delete the .svn folder in the repository, and re-setup SVN through eclipse ('Share project').
I had the same problem with the 'src' directory.
solution:
copy the src directory to some other place, ex: c:\temp.
delete the src directory from eclipse project (via package or
project expl.).
open tortoise SVN (right click/repo browser).
drag & drop (while pressing the Ctrl key) the src directory to the
wanted directory in SVN.
in eclipse do: team/synchronozied, then update.
I've got a working copy checked out with svn; furthermore, I've created a new project in Eclipse that has the root of the working copy as the project's location. I want to be able to do stuff like compare versions from Eclipse. I have Subclipse 1.4.8, but that doesn't seem to give me what I want. Am I doing something wrong?
i have an svn working copy that also is a project in eclipse. after installing the subclipse plugin i had the same problem, the working copy was not recognized as such.
i just managed by chance to get it recognized as an svn working copy by renaming the project in question and then renaming it back to its old name. not very nice, but it did the trick :-)
There is an option when creating a new project, to use an existing source directory:
New project/ new Java Project / Create project from existing source.
Use that, tell it where your source lives, and it should automatically detect if it's a SVN working copy.
I guess this is not possible with Subclipse as it's given in its documentation that, you can only import an existing svn-managed folder under one condition, according to the doc:
"The only requirement is that your
working copy has to also be a valid
Eclipse project."
So, if you have a working copy that is not a complete eclipse project, Subclipse will not connect it to SVN.
You can right click on the root node of your project and select: Team / Share project
Then you choose SVN, let the default settings and it should work fine!
I am answering this after a long time of the question being asked. I ended up here because I was facing the same problem.
My solution was to create an empty .svn folder at the root folder of the project (in the latest version of svn client tortoise all meta-data is at the root folder). Then did an eclipse refresh and voila it did the trick. I am running subclipse core - 1.8.4.
One step that seemed to work for me, that no one has explicitly mentioned yet: I closed and then re-opened the project. I tried the "rename" trick, above, and that didn't work, but perhaps the poster of that answer also closed the project - they didn't detail exactly what steps they went thru to rename it. (I found you don't have to close the project to rename it, but perhaps they did.)
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In my case, I couldn't use an existing copy because I checked out the code using a newer version of Subversion on the command-line and Subclipse 1.4 couldn't recognize it. Upgrading and going through the improved "Share Project" menu resolved the problem.
I got this tip from the forums here:
http://subclipse.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1047&dsMessageId=2380064
I had the same issue and here are the details of the fix.
My Eclipse is "Helios Service Release 1".
I had an SVN checkout on my filesystem, I went to New Java Project, unchecked Use default location, chose the location, went to next step, chose the source folder and said Finish.
The project came up with no disk icon on it. As per few forum posts, right-clicked on the project, went to Team > Share Project, chose SVN, clicked Next, and the option was only to share the files to the SVN Repository for the first time.
I said Cancel, and the option is to make changes to the SVN plug-in settings. Went to Window menu, chose Preferences, browsed Team> SVN. Chose the SVN Connector tab, changed the SVNKit 1.2.3 to SVNKit 1.3.5 and said OK.
Then, right clicked on the project, said Team> SVN, on the next screen, chose the option Use Project Settings and clicked Finish. The disk button came to the project and the SVN URL got displayed on it.
Add the repository to your list of repositories in subclipse by choosing Window->Show View->Other... and choose SVN->SVN Repositories. Put in all the necessary info to connect to the repository.
Next, right click the repository and choose "checkout". If the project doesn't already have an eclipse .project file, you can create a new project from the source. If it already has a .project file, it will import that .project and use that as your eclipse project locally.
It will definitively not work if you use a different version of svn to checkout, that the one that is supported by Eclipse. I had this problem as I used svn 1.6 to checkout but I had an older eclipse version that had only 1.5. Subclipse has its own build-in svn client (Actually, in two flavors if I am not mistaken).
Check that the subclipse version matches the svn client that you used to checkout. You can check the plugin version number for subclipse (Help -> About -> Click on subversion logo) and match it against svn --version
This worked for me:
1) Go to the 'SVN Repository Exploring' perspective and add a folder somewhere above your working copy
2) Close and open the Eclipse projects.
This should then be enough to get them recognized by Subclipse.
I have encountered a similar situation were existing projects would not get associated with the Subversive plugin. Unfortunately, none of the previous suggestions helped (renaming projects etc.). What has helped is removing projects from Eclipse by deleting them -- just the projects from Package Explorer and not the actual directories and files on disc (the deletion prompt has a special checkbox for that, which is unchecked by default) -- and reimporting the deleted projects as existing projects back.
Of course, as mentioned in some of the answers here, the relevant SVN repositories need to be registered with Eclipse before reimporting the projects. Otherwise, there would no repositories to re-associate the projects with.
When you open a versioned project (i.e., a project in SVN working copy) in Eclipse, that was never previously used with Subclipse, you need to perform these steps:
Right-click the project in Project Explorer.
Select Team | Share Project.
At this point Subclipse will tell you that "The project is already configured with SVN repository information". Click Next.
Subclipse automatically recognizes this project as versioned and all the features of the SVN plug-in should become available.