[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16379) Using symbolic links in the workspace path causes an infinite loop for m2e builder

[Snjezana Peco (JIRA)]

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Snjezana Peco commented on JBIDE-16379:
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I have found a reproducible test case that can significantly slow down Eclipse. If there are a lot of projects in the workspace, it can cause Eclipse to lock.
I think Andre and Alexey have also experienced the lock issue this way. 

Steps to reproduce:

- initialize a git repository in a large file system 
You don't need to add anything to that repository.
- create a simple Eclipse project in that file system

EGit will continuously scan the whole file system and CPU will be very busy. If you import some big project (wildfly, for instance) to such a configuration, you will probably lock Eclipse.

I have no idea what we can do except avoiding such situations. I suppose the EGit team knows about this issue because they ignore .git in  directories such as: "/", "C:\", "/home", "/home/username".

> Using symbolic links in the workspace path causes an infinite loop for m2e builder
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>                 Key: JBIDE-16379
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16379
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: maven, upstream
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Alpha1
>            Reporter: Snjezana Peco
>            Assignee: Snjezana Peco
>             Fix For: 4.3.x
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>
> See JBIDE-16286



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