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damon
damon

Reputation: 8477

sorting files by date in project explorer in eclipse juno

Is it possible to show files in package explorer in the order of date they were created? I am using eclipse juno and I couldn't find any customize option in view menu of the project..

Currently the package explorer shows items in alphabetic order which cause me to search through the files to find the last modified project or java file. Can someone help?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2231

Answers (2)

WJS
WJS

Reputation: 40057

As far as I know you can't sort directly in Eclipse but you can use System explorer in Windows to help.

  • open project explorer.
  • click in the package you wish to look at
  • then any where in that window, click on show in and select System explorer.

You can then use that to sort the files based on creation date, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Steven Mai
Steven Mai

Reputation: 63

I'd comment if I could to ask for clarification but don't have enough points...

I assume you don't have a team repository or you would have enabled its label decorations, which I know is available in svn. Label decorations will show the team metadata associated with the files. It won't have them sorted but with a small set, you can scan them manually.

In order for this to be useful with a large set, the sort would have to be across all folders/packages. You could open up file explorer(assuming windows os), to the project folder, perform a search with filter of 'datemodified:'. Now you may have to remove the semi-colon and add it again, hit enter. That would sort the folders by date, then the files by date..across all folders.

Its ugly but it works (as far as I understand the question). Good luck.

Upvotes: 0

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