How to Create Eclipse Project from SVN Working Copy - eclipse

I don't want to checkout a new project and i don't wan't to use the share function.
what i want to do is: i already have a folder in my eclipse workspace which is an svn working copy. i just want to import it as a project from disk so eclipse knows it's connected to svn.

Add the project to your workspace as you would any other project then use share. I know you said you don't want to, but despite sounding like it will share it as a new project in SVN it does what you want in this case where the project already has SVN metadata in it.

it is NOT possible! -.-

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Commit Folder From Local Directory to Online Using SVN

I'm completely new to subversion and I'm unsure how to add and commit a Java Project to an online repository using svn. The goal is to move the important folders in the project including the src, package, and class. I've accessed the online repo and I (assume) I have it as a working copy. When I try to svn add the local project folders however, I am told it is not a working copy. How do I fix this? Is there a way I can make my workspace be the online repo directly? Or do I just copy the folder somehow? I'm using Cygwin and Eclipse.
To add your project to svn you can do it this way:
Right click on your project and select: Team / Share Project...
Select SVN
Select Use Existing Repository Location
Browse to the location you would like your project to reside: typically .../trunk
Click OK and finish
This should have committed your project to SVN. Regarding your question about your entire workspace being the online repo. with each of your individual projects connected to SVN just like I detailed above, you will be able to commit and update your local projects into and from SVN without any issues.

Two basic Tortoise SubVersion questions

I'm new to SubVersion and I have two really basic questions.
I would like to import an existing Eclipse project using TortoiseSVN. The web page on 'Import in place' http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-import.html says
"... create a new project folder in the repository".
Question one: does this assume the same name for the SubVersion repository and the Eclipse project?
Question two: Import in Place.step 2 says: "Checkout the new folder over the top of the folder you want to import". What does "...over the top" mean in this context, the folder above the
project, in my case C:/eclipse_workspace or the actual project root in Eclipse?
1- no need to get same name you can change directory in checkout windows
2-In my case I used checkout inside workspace folder
workspace/project folder
and the project folder is checked out from repo
I think you should really use a Subversion plugin for Eclipse. I use Subversive and it does everything I need.

Importing files from Subversion into an existing project

I am trying to import files from a SVN repository into an existing Eclipse project using Subclipse. Unfortunately, I can only find a way to create a new project from a repository. I know about Tortoise SVN, but it is so much easier to remember to add files when version control is imported into the IDE. Is this possible?
Eclipse doesn't seem to offer this functionality, but you can use another svn client to achieve this effect and then subversion will recognise that these files are under version control.
You may also want to check out how to check out the contents rather than the folder itself.

Associating existing Eclipse project with existing SVN repository

I have an eclipse project on my hard disk, which is a fairly recent check out from an SVN repository. I've imported this project into my Eclipse workspace, and now want to associate it with the SVN repository.
How do I do this? The only options I seem to have under Right-click -> Team is "Share Project", which only seems to allow me to do an initial import.
Edit: Motivation - It's a largish repository, and I don't really want to have to import the whole thing over the network.
Edit 2: There are (for some reason) no .svn dirs in the project. So maybe a fresh import from svn is the only option
Team->Share project is exactly what you need to do. Select SVN from the list, then click "Next". Subclipse will notice the presence of .svn directories that will ask you to confirm that the information is correct, and associate the project with subclipse.
I just wanted to add that if you don't see Team -> Share project, it's likely you have to remove the project from the workspace before importing it back in. This is what happened to me, and I had to remove and readd it to the workspace for it to fix itself. (This happened when moving from dramatically different Eclipse versions + plugins using the same workspace.)
subclipse not showing "share project" option on project context menu in eclipse
I'm asked this question very frequently, if it's smart to use "Share project..." if a eclipse project has been disconnected from it SVN counterpart in the repository. So, I append my answer to this thread.
The SVN-Team option "Share project ..." is totally fine for projects that exist in SVN and in your Eclipse workspace, even if the Eclipse project is missing the hidden .svn configuration. You can still connect them. Eclipse SVN-implementation (Subclipse/Subversive) will verify if the provided SVN http(s) source is populated. If yes, all existing files will be copied and linked (checked out in SVN terms) to your very personal Eclipse workspace.
Word of caution:
Do a backup if you depend on you local files. The SVN implementation may vary its behaviour with every release.
If you have multiple projects encapsulated within each other, make sure you point the SVN path to the correct local path.
regards,
Feder
I came across the same issue. I checked out using Tortoise client and then tried to import the projects in Eclipse using import wizard. Eclipse did not recognize the svn location. I tried share option as mentioned in the above posts and it tried to commit these projects into SVN. But my issue was a version mismatch. I selected svn 1.8 version in eclipse (I was using 1.7 in eclipse and 1.8.8 in tortoise) and then re imported the projects. It resolved with no issues.
I am using Tortoise SVN client. You can alternativley check out the required project from SVN in some folder. You can see a .SVN folder inside the project. Copy the .SVN folder into the workspace folder. Now remove the project from eclipse and import the same again into eclipse. You can see now the project is now associated with svn
In case of SVN servers you have to creating a central repository with all projects. The contents of the repository can be uploaded with the Team/Share command; in case of the Subversive client it automatically runs a commit after the import, so you can upload your files.
This step cannot be circumvented in any way using a centralized version management system such as SVN.
Try this- Close the project then open it. It links with svn automatically,if project was checked out from valid svn path.

Eclipse "Share Project" by hand?

What actually happens to the file system when you do a Subclipse Share Project on an Eclipse project that was externally checked out from Subversion? All the .svn folders are already in place. I get an error when I try to Share Project the right way, and I'd rather not delete and re-checkout the projects from the SVN Repository browser.
Dunno exactly what happens within eclipse, I presume it does some funky stuff in the .metadata directory of the workspace. That said, I would recommend the following to get eclipse to learn about the svn settings of the project:
Delete the project from the workspace (keep "Delete project contents on disk" unchecked)
File > Import... > General > Existing Projects into Workspace
Browse to the folder containing the original project(s) of interest
Import the projects into your workspace
This seems to have the side effect of subclipse noticing the subversion settings when importing the "new" projects into your workspace.
The Share Project action is intended to commit the first version of a project, i.e. one with no .svn metadata in place. It will get upset if it sees .svn directories already there. As Rob wrote, the way to get that checked-out project into Eclipse is to use the import capability.
I'm not sure what version of Eclipse you are using or whether this will apply since I'm using Subversive instead of Subclipse. When I use the share project feature to commit the project into svn when I already have all of the .svn directories in place, I get a choice of like "Use current project settings" and then eclipse automatically reattaches the project svn information to the team integration. You can screw it up if you try to enter different information.