Question

I am using TFS plugin for eclipse, i want to make my \bin (It’s an Android Project) folder’s changes not reflected in TFS, we can say it as “unbinding” or “making it offline”. Is that possible by Eclipse TFS plugin

Answer 1

The terminology used by most source control providers, including TFS, is ignored.

The TFS plug-in for Eclipse will honor Eclipse’s “derived resource” settings, which is resources that are built from the rest of the project resources. That is to say that your bin directories should be ignored by your Eclipse settings. You may wish to double-check your project configuration to ensure that your filesystem layout reflects what Eclipse believes to be your project layout. (This can happen, for example, if you have a maven-style project configuration and use maven exclusively to produce builds, but you do not use mvn to setup your Eclipse projects and workspace.)

However, you can also accomplish this manually, as the TFS plug-in for Eclipse has an ignore file like most other source control providers.

From within the Eclipse package explorer, you can simply right click on your bin folder and select Team > Ignore. This will create the appropriate ignore file and add an entry for your entire bin folder (recursively).

You can also update the file manually, in TFS 2010 and prior, this file is the .tpignore file. In TFS 2012, with local workspaces, Visual Studio and the TFS plug-in for Eclipse have standardized on the new .tfignore file.