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| <H1>Creating a global ignore pattern</H1> |
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| <P>When synchronizing resources, often there are resources that you do not want |
| to commit to the repository. The Workbench provides a global pattern matching |
| facility for ignoring resources that can appear anywhere in your project hierarchy. |
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| <li>Open the |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.team.ui.IgnorePreferences)")'> |
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| <b>Team > Ignored Resources</b></a> preference page. |
| This displays a list of resource |
| name patterns against which resources will be screened, before they are considered |
| as candidates for version control.</li> |
| <li>Click the <b>Add Pattern...</b> push button and type the pattern that you want to match, |
| for example <samp>*.obj</samp>.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li> |
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| <p>All files with an extension that matches the pattern that you added will be |
| excluded from version control. |
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| <p>The patterns that you define may contain the wildcard characters * and ?. The |
| asterisk represents any sequence of zero or more characters, the question mark |
| represents a single character. For example, you can specify a pattern |
| of <samp>*~</samp>, which would match any temporary files that end with a tilde |
| (~). Any file or directory that matches any one of the patterns will be ignored |
| when files are being considered for version control. You can temporarily disable |
| ignoring the resource name pattern by deselecting it from the list. You do not |
| have to remove the specified pattern from the list. |
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| <p>It is important to note that the path leading up to the resource name is not |
| included in the matching. For example, for the file "/path/to/file.txt", |
| only the string "file.txt" is matched against the patterns. |
| This facility is not intended for specifying fully-qualified path names but |
| for specifying globally applicable patterns. |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="tasks-100d.htm">Version control life cycle: adding and ignoring resources</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-100d1b.htm">Overriding or removing resource ignore patterns</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-115.htm">Synchronizing with the repository</a><br> |
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