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How do I manage eclipse plugins, preferences and configuration for a team?

All the members of my team works with Eclipse. However, each one have different configuration, preferences and plugins. What is the best way to keep a baseline of plugins, preferences such as code styling and formatting, and other configuration in order to have similar start point but to allow each team member for specific configuration.

I am looking for a solution that will be easy to maintain also, means not too many files that resides in different locations.

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oshai Avatar asked Nov 16 '10 21:11

oshai


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A simple approach for preferences is to use File>Import and File>Export, choosing General>Preferences, then the preferences you want to share. For a few of my past teams, we stored the baseline preferences in version control.

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Andy Thomas Avatar answered Oct 31 '22 19:10

Andy Thomas