Comments on: Eclipse Ignore Folder

By: Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:54:36 +0000

To get rid of the subversion files, you can go to the menu of the navigator, and select Filters. Then check the checkbox for the types of files/directories you want ignored. Unfortunately there is not one for .svn so I had to choose the .* one. Supposedly you are supposed to be able to edit your plugin.xml file to manually add more filters to choose from, but I could not get this to work.

Back to the point of the original post, this tip worked great for me for the CTRL-SHFT-R issue. I have a folder of many thousands of images inside my project, and this excludes them from the resource window. Unforunately it doesn’t exclude them from searches! I wish eclipse had a better IGNORE-THIS-FOLDER option. Searching google I come across a lot of people looking for this feature.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:49:05 +0000

That I don’t know. I think that if you add the eclipse subversion plug-in it gets rid of the .svn folders from the view.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:41:42 +0000

This is great! Thanks so much.

Now… is there a way to specify a pattern? I have a whole big code tree of directories and each one has a “.svn” directory to be marked “Derived”, a “generated” directory to be marked “Derived”, etc.

Digging around in the directories I can’t even find where Eclipse stores this information.

Thanks!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:28:32 +0000

Thanks so much!! I have been looking for a solution to this mildly irritating problem for some time! Kudos!

By: Derek Lewis

Derek Lewis — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:43:25 +0000

Thanks very much for this tip. I was looking for exactly this, and it works like a charm.
Due to the way our build works, there’s 5 copies of most js/jsp files, and the last one is the source file, which has been rather irritating. Your instructions fix that wonderfully.