Bug 152919 [Import/Export] import existing project w/ copy is inefficient
I just tried to import some existing projects and selected "copy projects into workspace". After a long time (sorry, no measurements) I had to cancel the request, because I was running out of disk space. I had just succeeded in importing the first project (jdt core), which takes approx. 80MB disk space, but at that time the previously blank workspace consumed additional 300MB mainly in: .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history/ Is this operation recording undo-information for each single file imported? Unless I made something really stupid, this operation seems not to be usable for large projects.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.ide/src/org/eclipse/ui/internal/wizards/datatransfer/WizardProjectsImportPage.java
Dialog.applyDialogFont(selectAll);
		setButtonLayoutData(selectAll);
		Button deselectAll = new Button(buttonsComposite, SWT.PUSH);
		deselectAll.setText(DataTransferMessages.DataTransfer_deselectAll);
		deselectAll.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
			/*
			 * (non-Javadoc)
			 * 
			 * @see org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter#widgetSelected(org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent)
			 */
			public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
				projectsList.setCheckedElements(new Object[0]);
				setPageComplete(false);
			}
		});
		Dialog.applyDialogFont(deselectAll);
		setButtonLayoutData(deselectAll);
		Button refresh = new Button(buttonsComposite, SWT.PUSH);
		refresh.setText(DataTransferMessages.DataTransfer_refresh);
		refresh.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
			/*
			 * (non-Javadoc)
			 * 
			 * @see org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter#widgetSelected(org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent)
			 */
			public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
				if (projectFromDirectoryRadio.getSelection()) {
					updateProjectsList(directoryPathField.getText().trim());
				} else {
					updateProjectsList(archivePathField.getText().trim());