Question

I’m an Eclipse newbie, and I have an Eclipse workspace with projects for a Google Web Toolkit App. What directories/files should I commit to version control (we’re using Subversion)? I believe I don’t need to commit .metadata directories, and it seems to me that I don’t need to commit war directories, but I’m not positive. The committed projects need to be shared across multiple developers.

Answer 1

stacker covered Eclipse’s files, let me cover GWT 😉

Assuming you are using the standard layout:

The war directory is the deployment
image of your web application. It is
in the standard expanded war format
recognized by a variety of Java web
servers, including Tomcat, Jetty, and
other J2EE servlet containers. It
contains a variety of resources:

• Static content you provide, such as the host HTML page
• GWT compiled output
• Java class files and jar files for server-side code
• A web.xml file that configures your web app and any servlets

So as you can see it’s a mixed bag. As it’s been suggested before, you should use svn:ignore to let SVN know what exactly you want to put under source control – obviously the compiled output and class files are out 🙂