Bug 96627 - USABILITY: Renaming a folder should move make targets to new folder
Summary: USABILITY: Renaming a folder should move make targets to new folder
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-build (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: cdt-build-inbox@eclipse.org CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Reported: 2005-05-25 11:29 EDT by David Inglis CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:23 EDT (History)
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Description David Inglis CLA 2005-05-25 11:29:28 EDT 
If I spend the time to create a large number of make 
targets on a directory, then I need to rename the directory
to something else (or copy it) the make targets should
move/copy with it.  Currently when a directory is 
renamed, the make targets just dissappear, but then 
re-appear if I create a new directory using the old
name.  

This is likely not intuitive behaviour and since the set-up
cost of make targets is high, it would help to minimize
frustration.
Comment 1 Axel Mueller CLA 2010-03-18 18:41:43 EDT 
There is a workaround:
As you might have noticed the make targets are not removed from the .cprojects file (that is why they reappear if you create a new folder with the old name). Thus, you can change the folder name in the .cprojects file manually and have your make targets back. Not very intuitive but it just works.