Bug 102860

Summary:	Use relative pathnames in savedIndexNames.txt
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Keith W. Campbell <keithc>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Kent Johnson <kent_johnson>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	3.3 M5
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Keith W. Campbell

2005-07-06 10:39:53 EDT

As far as I can tell
  <workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/org/eclipse.jdt.core/savedIndexNames.txt
is the only place where the absolute pathname of the workspace is stored
in metadata. Using relative pathnames (i.e. just the simple filenames)
would be sufficient because all the files are in the same directory.
This would reduce the disk space required to store the information;
it would reduce the IO required save/restore the data; and it might
reduce the in memory size of data structures relating to the index.

Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc

2005-08-10 09:19:58 EDT

Kent can you please comment ?

Comment 2 Kent Johnson

2007-01-31 11:35:29 EST

This was done as part of the changes to bug 138309

Comment 3 Olivier Thomann

2007-02-05 11:13:43 EST

Verified for 3.3M5 using I20070205-0009.
The index version however has a full path.:
INDEX VERSION 1.120+D:\eclipse\workspaces\testM5\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.jdt.core