I am having trouble getting rid of Subclipse from my Eclipse configuration.
I made the decision to switch to Subversive due to the m2eclipse project dropping support for Subclipse.
So I uninstalled Subclipse and then installed Subversive using the About Eclipse -> Installation Details -> Uninstall method. Now, when I go to any Team related options/tasks/preferences there are two SVN options available (one for Subversive and one for Subclipse) making life confusing.
Having grepped the workspace .metadata
folder for the string subclipse
I can see that the configuration is still littered with references to Subclipse:
$ grep -lir "subclipse" .metadata/
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.team.ui.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.debug.ui.prefs
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload17.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload23.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload21.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload19.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/usagedata.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload22.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload14.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload13.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload20.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload18.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload16.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.epp.usagedata.recording/upload15.csv
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.ui/dialog_settings.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.ui/syncParticipants.xml
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.lazy
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.state
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/-213569165961.target/.pluginInfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxse-tutorials/.syncinfo.snap
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxse-tutorials/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/BA_NAT_Traversal/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/barchart-udt/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/barchart-udt/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/netty-benchmark/.syncinfo
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/netty-benchmark/.indexes/properties.index
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/jxta/.syncinfo.snap
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.root/73.tree
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.snap
.metadata/.bak_0.log
All of the projects above are now disconnected from SVN. Obviously some of the references such as usagedata are not important, I am more worried about the XML files though. Is it safe to manually go through and delete all tags/properties related to Subclipse? I feel that approach may be unwise though.
Does anyone know of a way to eliminate all traces of Subclipse without losing my workspace? Also any tips on what I might have done wrong? Should I have manually disconnected all of my SVN projects before making the switch to Subversive?
Best Answer
I had exactly the same problem. The reason is when you uninstall via eclipse, it doesn't delete the jar files from the plugin folder, the steps I did.
Go to folder eclipse/plugins for avoiding any potential damage (just deleting wrong jars and get errors in other apps) list the jars from subclipse.
and then if it lists the following
Remove them by piping xargs rm to the command
Restart your eclipse and you'll only see the correct svn version.
PS: the .metadata you display comes from the workspace, it only affects to the projects you got from svn, it won't do any change in eclipse.