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Asked: 2026-05-20T17:07:34+00:00

It seems to me that adding the property svn:ignore on files like .classpath would

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It seems to me that adding the property svn:ignore on files like .classpath would be a good idea. I use both Windows (work, ugh) and Linux development environments and every time I sync with the repository it overwrites my .classpath from whichever machine I’m working on.

I tried right-clicking the .classpath file in the Team Sync perspective, but the svn:ignore option is greyed out.

Any ideas how I might: 1. get this item out of source control, 2. add it to an ignore list?

Any other files a smart addition to this list?

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  1. Editorial Team

    At the command line:

    svn rm --keep-local .classpath
svn pe svn:ignore .

    The first command removes .classpath from SVN while keeping the file locally. The second command lets you edit svn:ignore. Add “.classpath” to the property.

    The general rule is that any build output, machine-specific, or user-specific files should not be versioned and then be added to svn:ignore. I’m not familiar with Java or Eclipse specifically so I couldn’t mention any files by name.

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