Ashling IDE scripted project creation

Okay yeah I'm very confused on how this command is supposed to work. "sw_repo" contains my the source code, the .cproject, .project, .settings I want to import. When I'm in the Ashling RiscFree GUI/IDE, I click file -> Import -> Existing Project, and then I point it to "sw_repo" and this works: it imports the code like I expect, project is shown in the project explorer tab, I can build/debug/etc.

In the cleaned state, sw_workspace is currently empty except for a .metadata folder. 

As a test, I tried manually copying all my files from sw_repo into sw_workspace (so now sw_workspace contains .metadata, .project, .cproject, .settings, .c, .h), and then ran the command "RiscFree.exe -data %CD%\sw_workspace", but I got the exact same result: "There are no projects in your workspace"