'Eclipse clean .metadata but keep project references
I have an Eclipse based software IDE where I create different workspaces for different projects. I very much like to use "File -> Switch Workspace" to easily swap between which project I am working on.
To reduce the amount of hard drive space needed to store the projects in our CM tool, I'm trying to figure out a good way to delete the extraneous files out of the .metadata files, but still keep the references to the project folders themselves. Right now I am going through the .metadata directory and manually deleting files that are large.
Is there an easy way to identify what the bare minimum fileset is for the .metadata folder?
I am aware you can just delete the entire .metadata folder, but then I have to "import" the project, which is an extra step I'd like to avoid.
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