Eclipse+Subversive- Multiple src paths in a single project each from a separate parts of a single repository

Question

In a nutshell, I would like to have a single eclipse project with multiple src directories each managed by subversive (or subclipse). If the code base were small, I would use several projects. However, the code base is not small (50+ src paths). Does anyone know how to do this with the Subversion plugins for eclipse? All of the src paths derive from modules that in turn have a common point node in the repository. However, the modules are versioned, so I can’t checkout all of them.

It looks as though Subclipse and Subversive do not support multiple src paths. Can anyone confirm this?

Solutions?

Answer 1

You should be able to do this using the svn:externals property. I'm not sure if or how this is done specifically with Subclipse, but using the svn command line tool you'd do:

svn propedit svn:externals /my/parent/project

format that file as such:

sub-project-1 https://svn.myserver.com/sub-project-1/trunk
sub-project-2 https://svn.myserver.com/sub-project-2/trunk

Although I haven't tried it, I would assume this would work with Eclipse. When you do an svn update, all of these external references will be checked out automatically.

Answer 2

There are two separate things: The directories that are source folders, and the versioning. These topics are more or less independent from each other.

There is the .classpath file in the project root that defines which directories are source folders. You can add more directories to it using the context menu in eclipse on the respective directories.

Seriously, you have 50+ source paths, each from a different repository? Besides the technical proplems you face with this, I wonder what use case you are following...