Re: Huge workspace

[bill.blalock@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> Is is safe to clear .history?

I'd like to see an official answer to this question.  I'd write a program 
to crawl the folders and delete everything older than N days instead of 
cleaning it. 

If you look at the file names you can see that they are generated pointer 
values.  Somehow those values are attached to the the source edited so I 
don't know what will happen with broken links.  Maybe I should find out :)

> Is this data being put to any good use by WDSCi and/or Eclipse?

This is where the files are stored which allow you to compare to local 
history and restore from local history.

> Is there a way to prevent the collection of all this history? 

No.  It would be nice to have a preference for how long history is 
retained.

I know that you just live with this problem in Eclipse (sad).






Brian Johnson <brian.johnson.mn@xxxxxxxxx>
05/31/2007 01:52 PM
Please respond to Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
 
        To:     wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
        cc:     (bcc: Bill Blalock/TUS/US/Certegy)
        Subject:        [WDSCI-L] Huge workspace


My WDSCi workspace is huge at 825MB.  A large part (619MB) of this bulk is 

in .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.history.  Is is safe to 
clear .history?  Is this data being put to any good use by WDSCi and/or 
Eclipse?  Is there a way to prevent the collection of all this history?