When I want to commit my project into svn, Eclipse displays a list of files in our tmp directory. Eclipse offers the possibility to add all these files to svn. But I don’t want that, I want Eclipse to ignore the entire directory.
About the project
Our project contains a symlink ‘tmp’ where all our cache files are written to:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tijmen tijmen 11 Oct 14 11:28 tmp -> ../tmp
The tmp symlink is already added to svn:ignore. The ../tmp directory is not in version control.
The ../tmp directory contains a lot of cache files (837 as of now). Every time I do Team->Commit it lists all the cache files as New in the Content column. Because the list is so long it is very hard to find the files I actually want to add and/or commit.
Is there a setting in Eclipse which enables me to ignore contents of a (symlinked) directory in the Team->Commit view?
I found a solution.
Right mouse on project -> Properties -> Resource -> Resource Filters. Here I created an exclude filter to exclude symbolic links. Luckily I have only one symbolic link in this project. For other projects a stricter filter can be created.