Sharing a workspace for many developers in Eclipse

Question

How can I share a workspace in Eclipse (Helios or Indigo) so that many developers are able to work in one project?

I know about SVN but I don\'t want to use that.

Answer 1

Most common you dont want to share the workspace, because people uses different versions of Eclipse/Netbeans with different settings, instead you want to separate the code and the workspace.

Most common you have the source code in a version tool like SVN or even better Mercurial or Git. You then checkout the source code and import it into your eclipse workspace (but dont store it in the workspace). If you dont want to use a version tool you cant merge files which has been edited by two developers at the same time, without a lot of work.

If you think SVN is a to big setup check out Mercurial, it is much easier and you can very simple setup a rep, a very good mac version is MacHg.

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