How to speed up the eclipse project 'refresh'

Question

I have a fairly large PHP codebase (10k files) that I work with using Eclipse 3.4/PDT 2 on a windows machine, while the files are hosted on a Debian fileserver. I connect vi

Answer 1

Given it's subversioned, why not have the files locally, and use a post commit hook to update to the latest version on the dev server after every commit? (or have a specific string in the commit log (eg '##DEPLOY##') when you want to update dev, and only run the update when the post commit hook sees this string).

Apart from refresh speed-ups, the advantage of this technique is that you can have broken files that you are working on in eclipse, and the dev server is still ok (albeit with an older version of the code).

The disadvantage is that you have to do a commit to push your saved files onto the dev server.