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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using git with Eclipse
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:44:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211024442.GJ14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475DC0CE.9070109@saville.com>

Wink Saville <wink@saville.com> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-10 22:42 Using git with Eclipse Wink Saville
2007-12-11  2:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-12-11  5:55   ` Wink Saville
2007-12-11 15:14     ` Jing Xue
2007-12-12  0:29     ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-12  6:07       ` Wink Saville
2007-12-13 21:23         ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-12-13 22:41           ` Wink Saville

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