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Reputation: 457

Importing a large project into Eclipse (SVN, Maven)

I just started interning for a CIS team at a large company, and I'm trying to get my workspace set up. Right now I have to import the cis project from the SVN repository into Eclipse. The problem is that the project is huge (multi moduled with many revisions), and when I try to check out the entire project it gets to 95% and goes into a gruelingly slow crawl as it starts checking out all of the revisions.

So I read the Eclipse install instructions on my department's wiki page, and it tells me that I need to export a Team Project Set by doing 

Export -> Team Project Set

on my "old" Eclipse and then later importing the .psf that I acquire out of the export onto the "new" Eclipse

But this is not available to me as I'm on a newly formatted computer and I have no previous projects to export.

I can import a small portion of the project that I can work with, but I can't seem to find the JAR files that I need for the build path.

I've spent almost 3 days on this, and I'm startting to pull out my hair. Can anyone help me with this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3172

Answers (1)

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So after some experimenting I found a solution which seems to work for now. I ended up importing solely from the directory that had all the files of code necessary for the scope of my first task.

However, I ran into a problem that I had been having before where I couldn't use basic navigation commands like F3 for viewing declarations. To fix this I did:

Project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Source Tab

The only folder on the build path was cis/src. I removed this one and added the entire parent directory cis.

If you are importing from an SVN repository and you can't change the settings for the build path, make sure that you imported your project as a JAVA Project, as opposed to a general project. This should link whatever JAR files you need.

If you need to add another folder/directory from the SVN that you didn't import initially, you can do so by doing almost the same steps as you did the first time: 

File -> Import -> Project from SVN -> choose the appropriate directory ->
Select "Check out as a folder into existing project" in "Check Out As" window.

Afterwards you can move the newly imported files as necessary.

Fellow interns, if you aren't sure about anything, DO NOT hesitate to ask your supervisors for help and clarification.

Upvotes: 1

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