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| <h1>Creating a global ignore pattern</h1> |
| <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.</p> |
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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)")'> |
| <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <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.</p> |
| <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.</p> |
| <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.</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><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> |
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