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In 2.1 (and in other CVS clients that I've used), it is a legal operation to checkout a folder from another location in the repository over top of a folder that has been pruned. In 3.0, this results in a failure. Michael Valenta's response from the mailing list: Unfortunately, Eclipse CVS needs to keep track of pruned folders for performance reasons (i.e. without it, synchronize can be extrememly slow if there are a large number of pruned folders). Therefore, CVS does not support Checkout Into for these folders. Your options are as follows: 1) Rename or delete the folders in the repository. This may be a problem if the history for the files that usd to be in these folders is important 2) Checkout the additional contents into a folder of a different name. 3) Define a module in the CVSROOT/modules file that gives you the strucutre you need and configure the resulting project to not fetch new directories (in the CVS project properties). --- While the performance increase is nice, it would also be nice to be able to opt for better CVS compatibility over a breaking performance improvement (or perhaps finding a way to have both would be fine too :) ).
I think the proper solution would be to support a checkout that configures the resulting project to a) not fetch absent directories and b) not remember pruned folders. Such a project would not require the sync optimization. No time for this in 3.0 though.
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
