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
* Display an error dialog with the specified message.
	 * 
	 * @param message
	 *            the error message
	 */
	protected void displayErrorDialog(String message) {
		MessageDialog.openError(getContainer().getShell(),
				getErrorDialogTitle(), message);
	}
	/**
	 * Get the title for an error dialog. Subclasses should override.
	 */
	protected String getErrorDialogTitle() {
		return IDEWorkbenchMessages.WizardExportPage_internalErrorTitle;
	}
	/**
	 * Collect the list of .project files that are under directory into files.
	 * 
	 * @param files
	 * @param directory
	 * @param monitor
	 *            The monitor to report to
	 * @return boolean <code>true</code> if the operation was completed.
	 */
	private boolean collectProjectFilesFromDirectory(Collection files,
			File directory, IProgressMonitor monitor) {
		if (monitor.isCanceled()) {
			return false;
		}
		monitor.subTask(NLS.bind(