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| <H1 CLASS="Head"> Ignoring resources from version control</H1> |
| <P>When synchronizing resources, it is possible that there |
| are some resources that you do not want to commit to the repository. There |
| are two ignore facilities provided, allowing you to specify what resources |
| should be excluded from update and commit operations.</P> |
| <P>The first is a global ignore facility, provided by the |
| Workbench. The second is the CVS ignore facility, which reads the contents of a |
| special file .<i>cvsignore</i> to determine what to ignore.</P> |
| <h2>Why ignore files when synchronizing?</h2> |
| <P>There are many files that a user may not want to commit to the repository. |
| For example, external editors may create temporary files in your project. Compilation of .java files creates .class files, and |
| likewise many build operations result in binary files. These files, when taken together, may |
| be quite large. In addition, they may be re-generated whenever a build is performed, |
| resulting in many outgoing changes. Typically these are not files that one wants to share with other members of a team or persist in the repository. </P> |
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| Global ignore facility</h2> |
| <p CLASS="Head">A global ignore facility is provided by the Workbench via the |
| Team preference page. |
| There is a list of file patterns against which resources will be matched before they are |
| considered as version control candidates. |
| These patterns may contain the wildcard characters "*" and "?". "*" |
| represents any sequence of zero or more characters. "?" represents any one |
| character. For example, you can specify a pattern of "*~", which would match |
| any temporary files that end with "~". Any file or directory that matches any one of the |
| patterns will be ignored during update or commit operations. When |
| you specify a file pattern to ignore, you can temporarily disable ignoring the |
| file pattern by deselecting it from the list; you do not have to remove the |
| specified file pattern from the list.<br> |
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| The patterns in the global ignore facility are matched against resource names during a |
| synchronize operation. 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.<br> |
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| <h2>CVS ignore facility</h2> |
| <p CLASS="Head">The Eclipse CVS client recognizes a file named ".cvsignore" |
| in each directory of a project. This is a standard CVS facility and |
| many existing CVS projects may contain this file.<br> |
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| This text file consists of a list of files, directories, or patterns. |
| In a similar way to the global ignore facility, the wildcards "*" and "?" |
| may be present in any entry in the .cvsignore file. Any file or sub-directory |
| <b> in the current directory</b> that matches any one of the patterns will |
| be ignored. It is important to note that the semantics of this file |
| differs from that of the global ignore facility in that it applies only to |
| files and directories in the same directory as the .cvsignore file itself. |
| A project may contain one .cvsignore file in each directory. For more |
| information, please visit <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/CVS" target="_blank">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/CVS</a>.</p> |
| <p CLASS="Head">Resources that have not been added to CVS control can be ignored |
| by selecting <b>Team > Add to .cvsignore</b> from the pop-up menu of the |
| resource in one of the navigation views. This menu option is also available |
| in the Synchronize view.</p> |
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