Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
Wink Saville <wink@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm trying to use git on an Eclipse workspace and the .metadata
directory is chock full of files and was wondering what, if anything,
should be ignored. At the moment .history looks like a candidate for
ignoring there are probably others.
Ignore all of .metadata; its Eclipse private state that you don't
want to version. I'd add it to .git/info/exclude so its ignored only
in the repository that is using Eclipse, rather than in .gitignore
(which is published).
Shawn,
I added .metadata to exclude then used git rm to remove
.metadata from the repository. I then cloned that
repository to see how Eclipse would work. (As part of my
workflow I use git as a backup so I wanted to see what would
happen when I "restored".)
As I'm sure you know with the metadata gone my existing projects
in the Ui were gone and they have to be recreated as well as
some Eclipse and plugin specific configuration.
I understand you and others are working on an Eclipse plugin
for git, will it also ignore . metadata?
Do you need any testing done or is it too early? I'd be glad to
test if you feel its solid enough that I won't lose data or if it
uses a separate different repo then I could use both.
Regards,
Wink Saville
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