Bug 569686 - Strange behaviour of new project dialog
Summary: Strange behaviour of new project dialog
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.17   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-12-13 09:30 EST by Alexander Veit CLA
Modified: 2020-12-13 09:30 EST (History)
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Description Alexander Veit CLA 2020-12-13 09:30:47 EST
OS Linux with the following situation:

/.level-1-dir/mountpoint/path/to/myprjdir where /.level-1-dir is a directory below the root directory with a name starting with a dot

Open File/New/Project..., select "Project" choose a project name that differs from the directory name myprjdir. Uncheck "Use default location" and choose the directory /.level-1-dir/mountpoint/path/to/myprjdir.

Then the following error is shown and the finish button is disabled:

/.level-1-dir/mountpoint/path/to/myprjdir overlaps the location of another project: 'myprjdir'

The error occasionally also occurs when /.level-1-dir/mountpoint/path/to/myprjdir is referenced by a symbolic link which does not contain a leading dot in the name of the first path component.

The error also occurs when myprjdir is actually a directory below the current workspace. This means that the directory is not stored with a relative path which also prevents the workspace fro being movable in the file system.