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hi,

is it possible to setup a global workspace configuration in eclipse IDE? when opening a new workspace all my settings are lost (font size, subversion-settings, JVM-setting etc.). this is very annoying for (amongst other reasons) i often open new workspaces when i do a new experimental branch in source-control.

workspace settings are set in .metadata/. would be really nice if there was a global metadata folder...

thanks for information.
 
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A new workspace for a project branch? Seems excessive. I normally get by with just one workspace for everything unless I've got a LOT of projects and some of them are totally unrelated. And, in subversion at least, I'd think that the job of getting stuff from branches to trunk and vice versa would be easier if the same workspace held both of them.

I would not be surprised if you couldn't simply shut down Eclipse, clone the old workspace, delete the projects from the cloned workspace, then start Eclipse using the cloned workspace.

I won't give a warranty on that, but Eclipse is pretty good about such things...
 
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Originally posted by Tim Holloway:

I would not be surprised if you couldn't simply shut down Eclipse, clone the old workspace, delete the projects from the cloned workspace, then start Eclipse using the cloned workspace.

I won't give a warranty on that, but Eclipse is pretty good about such things...



Yes, that works - I'm doing it regularly. (And if you want to have the same projects, just on a different branch, you don't even need to delete projects... )
 
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yes, i am doing this workaround for some time too. but wondered whether there could be a quicker/nicer way provided by eclipse natively...
 
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You can export/import preference settings in Eclipse. Select Window >> Preferences. Most developers overlook them, but once the Preferences dialog is displayed, there are Import and Export buttons in the lower left of the dialog. Using them may achieve what you want. Note however that, in my experience, this functionality is not always supported by all plugins so you may not be able to save all your settings.
 
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