Importing/Exporting Project Preferences

Question

Having a bit of a problem,

Due to the source-control set-up we use, each bug/enhancement is worked on in a new branch. This is fine, but when in Eclipse, we need to

Answer 1

The above methods might work in some settings but do not address the problem of exporting a single project from your workspace including its properties for use by another person.

One way of doing this is to export the project folder as a zip archive as described above but also save the following file from your workspace: .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/MYPROJECT/.indexes/properties.index where MYPROJECT is your project name.

If you then import the project as a new project in a different workspace you can afterwards copy this file into your new workspace metadata and you will have the original project properties.