RE: How to add .classpath and .project at .svnignore ?

> For my projects, I keep .project and .classpath files in the
> repository as you mention. But this _does_ give problems for
> Subclipse: a "Checkout As..." will fail.
>
> The reason: before actually checking out the project, Subclipse
> locally creates a new Java project. This makes sure that the
> destination directory exists, and already creates a .project file in
> that directory.
> Next, it checks out the code, but this fails: Subversion refuses to
> overwrite the locally created .project file with the checked out
> .project file, and the checkout won't continue.

All true.

The only thing I'm not sure of is why, unless you were planning to
change the project type, would you not just Check Out As Project?

- Greg
Received on Tue Mar 9 09:19:23 2004