Re: [egit-dev] Issue with symbolic links

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

After migrating to a new user account (and a new user home-dir), I wanted to be smart and leverage a symbolic link to not rebuild all my Eclipse workspaces (yes, there are many). The strategy seems to work fine except for EGit.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=460118
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=460120

I'm keen on looking into some of the issues. Does anyone have a point for 460118 specifically? Is there a location in the file system where the view stores the repositories information or is that gathered dynamically?

EGit stores the path to the repositories shared with EGit team provider in the workspace under

.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/<project-name>/org.eclipse.egit.core/GitProjectData.properties

see

http://git.eclipse.org/c/egit/egit.git/tree/org.eclipse.egit.core/src/org/eclipse/egit/core/project/GitProjectData.java

-Matthias