[Jeremy Davis]

Eclipse 3.01
MyEclipse 3.83
Fedora Core 2

A directory .myeclipse has appeared in my CVS synchronizing and when I cleaned/built my project. It takes forever to build and is hard to add to .cvsignore.

Is there supposed to be a complete copy of the project inside? And how do I prevent cvs from recognizing it?

Thanks,
Jeremy Davis

[Riyad Kalla]

Jeremy,
If you didn’t want to check this into CVS then on your intial import it is suggested that you add this to your .cvsignore file. Removing something from CVS that is already in is a PIA, it would require you to:

1) Erase .myeclipse, and resync project, commiting the deletion
2) Add a .cvsignore file with the line “.myeclipse” in it
3) Readd the dir

NOTE: I am not suggesting you do this because step #1 will cause MyEclipse to barf, it needs that directory.

What I would suggest you do at this point is disconnect the project from CVS, go erase it off the CVS server, re-share the project to CVS and on initial import remember to add all the files you don’t want in CVS to .cvsignore.

PLEASE have a sys admin help you with the “Erase from CVS” Step if you have never done it, CVS is a moody system that likes to give unexperienced users such hard times if you manhandle it and I don’t know your level of farmiliarity with admining a CVS install, so I don’t want to give you instructions that shut you down for a few days.

[Jeremy Davis]

I added the directory to .cvsignore and its fine. However, files in the .myeclipse directory appear whenever I search the project, searching for an action mapping for instance, and when the project builds, usually taking a long time to build. I’ve been using MyEclipse for over a year and haven’t experienced this before. Is there something I accidentally did to add this folder to the project?

[Riyad Kalla]

Jeremy,
This folder always exists in MyEclipse projects, it is used as a scratch folder by MyEclipse for building/validating resources. However this should be hidden from you by default, along with all other “dot” files in the package view, did you turn that filter off by chance or are you using the Navigator view now?

[Jeremy Davis]

I checked my filters and *.files is selected. I use the navigator view with the SQL editor only so I do open it, but not often.

Its no big deal, I was just wondering if it was something you’d seen before or if there was something specific I should do.

Thanks for the prompt response.

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