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Eclipse requires me to check out all resources in a project and keep my local copy up to date with the repository. This can be thousands of files so it is time consuming to keep them all up to date. What I'd like to be able to do is check out only the handful of files I'm interested in. Here's one possible idea for representing this: I'd associate a project with a Team CVS repository, and the Eclipse Navigator would show all the project files as 'ghosted' (or some other kind of resource decoration). If I try to open a resource which exists in the repository but not in the workspace then it would offer to check out and edit the file or just view it without making a local copy. Also when checking in, it would offer to remove the local copies of the committed files. Note this is different from checking out resources read-only and editing them later because the local copy would not exist. We have a lot of experience with this development paradigm outside Eclipse (using a front-end to CVS and a builder tool) and it seems to work out rather nicely in practice. This is why I think it would be a useful enhancement to Eclipse.
This bug has not been touched for 2 years. Closing as WONTFIX. Please reopen if you feel this is still an important issue.
This one is still important for us. Not many people use Eclipse internally for C projects because of it. Also it's going to cause pain when our testers try to use it; some of our test directories have upwards of 2000 files when usually the tester only needs to check out 1 or 2. Existing non-Eclipse tools can just check out the 1 or 2 they need so it's a tough sell to get them to use Eclipse for this.
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As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported. Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.
