Rebuilding My Eclipse Environment
After discovering that tag insight wasn't working for me in CFEclipse 1.3.2beta, I decided to roll back to the latest stable version.
It took several reinstalls of Eclipse Ganymede before I finally got back to how I like it set up. Eclipse is incredibly finicky in that aspect and that's the downside. If you look at plugins and features directories, you'll find tons and tons of files and subdirectories. And sometimes one little file somehow gets messed up and Eclipse has a conniption and refuses to display one of the perspectives properly.
One handy feature that seems to be overlooked is the ability to import and export lists of update sites such as CFEclipse and Aptana. If you look at Software Updates>Manage Software, you'll see that the default lists are set only to Ganymede Sites and a bunch of links pointing to download.eclipse.org. If you anticipate that you might have to trash an eclipse directory (or really, to have a backup list just in case), you should go to Export . . ., tick off the external site links you want to preserve. This will be saved in .xml format; give it a meaningful name such as EclipseBackup.xml or something like that if you think the default Bookmarks.xml name is too generic.
Then, should you need to reinstall Eclipse, you can simply go to Import . . ., navigate to your directory where you saved your .xml list, and select that. And bingo, your external sites are available, saving you minutes of looking for that website url and typing it in.
Next step - importing projects. Easily done. Not so easy to figure out - reconnecting SVN links. After some trial and error, and scouring Polarion's site, I finally figured it out. To save you the trouble, here's how to reconnect projects to SVN repositories:
Select a project, right-click and then select Team>Share Projects . . . Then, select SVN. In the next dialog window you should see the relevant repository location you're trying to reconnect the project to. Below, ""Use project settings"" is selected; you should be fine with this if you didn't delete .svn file from the directory. Then click on Finish; that should be all you need to do.
