[ptp-dev] Dealing with corrupt .ptp-sync

[Jeffrey Overbey <jeffreyoverbey@xxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Synchronized projects have been working well for me (and I like the 
filter dialog, by the way!), although I've occasionally run into some 
bizarre and unreproducible errors.  However, I just realized that they 
mostly happen after I have force-killed Eclipse (e.g., during debugging 
when hot code replacement fails, or when the UI hangs, or it runs out of 
memory, or whatever).  I would guess that my synchronized projects are 
synchronizing in the background, and I'm basically killing git in the 
middle of a sync, corrupting the .ptp-sync repository.

I need to make an effort to stop doing that :) but I'm just curious... 
how would you feel about adding a command to the UI like "replace remote 
copy with local" which basically recreates the remote code and .ptp-sync 
repo from the local sources (or vice versa)?

I ask because a couple of our users at NCSA have managed to corrupt 
their .ptp-sync repos too, on occasion, and it would be nice to have a 
way to fix that from within Eclipse.  I would imagine most of the code 
to do that is already in the project conversion wizard... (?)

I don't want to add anything else to your to-do list :-) but I thought 
I'd ask, maybe for post-Juno consideration...

Thanks!  Have a good weekend.

Jeff