Thomas Küstermann

Thanks for the links @nikopp! The descriptions of the filed issues are looking very similar to what I tried to describe. @selsemore I missed to watch out for thread dumps...

The thing is that `rmdir /S /Q` on the command line and manual deletion via file explorer works like a charm. It's only Eclipse that struggles to delete the project...

> Deleting the meta data files via Team -> Disconnect ... prior to deleting the project has no benefit either. In fact, the .svn folder and files underneath are still...

Just for completeness: Looks like this is filed under [STS-2582 - Checkout as a gradle project using Eclipse](https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2582).