Quoting Wink Saville <wink@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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".)
One way to deal with this might be (after excluding it from the workspace repository) creating a sub-repository under .metadata, and use that one for your local backup.
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.
Egit is an Eclipse plugin, so you can always test it in an isolated "sandbox" workspace.
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