The new Subversive plugin that ships with Eclipse Helios has some new pretty icons, but apart from that it seems to be garbage. It does not recognize the projects that I placed under SVN version control using Galileo. After some fooling around and a lot of googling, I found myself desperate and exported the project and re-commited it to SVN under the new Helios plugin. Crappy solution but at least it was under version control.
That was not the end of it though. Even though I committed it to a completely clean-created SVN repository, just for Helios's poor plugin, where only a single machine ever made commits to, it soon started complaining about files that were "already present on path foo/bar/baz". SVN has given be trouble before, but this time I was shocked to find the extent of the plugin's disability to do anything! I opened explorer with the the trusty old TortoiseSVN to address the issue. I managed to backup the folder, revert+update it, reinsert the files, and commit them. Tried and true and it works.
When I returned to Helios, it claimed that the project was no longer under version control. What the hell? What kind of alien format does the plugin use?!
Maybe it's time to ditch SVN and try GIT instead – something I have wanted to do for a while. GIT seems more robust, but it really comes down to how well their plugins work. With my current opinion of the Subversive plugin for Helios, though, EGIT must be really miserable if I am to go back to Subversive.
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