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
}
		try {
			return new ZipFile(fileName);
		} catch (ZipException e) {
			displayErrorDialog(DataTransferMessages.ZipImport_badFormat);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			displayErrorDialog(DataTransferMessages.ZipImport_couldNotRead);
		}
		archivePathField.setFocus();
		return null;
	}
	/**
	 * Answer a handle to the zip file currently specified as being the source.
	 * Return null if this file does not exist or is not of valid format.
	 */
	private TarFile getSpecifiedTarSourceFile(String fileName) {
		if (fileName.length() == 0) {
			return null;
		}
		try {
			return new TarFile(fileName);
		} catch (TarException e) {
			displayErrorDialog(DataTransferMessages.TarImport_badFormat);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			displayErrorDialog(DataTransferMessages.ZipImport_couldNotRead);
		}
		archivePathField.setFocus();
		return null;
	}
	/**