Synchronization prompts to add ".svn/entries" files after refresh. Is this normal?

Hello.

I have used cvs and Eclipse's cvs client, but I am new to svn and subclipse.
I have been experimenting with subclipse for the past week and some recent
behaviour has puzzled me.

I have been developing a simple web application in Eclipse. (I'm an old
hand at that; I've just never used svn as my revision control system
before.) The web application contains JSP files that I edit with an
external tool. So, in order to get Eclipse to recognize that local files
have changed behind its back, I use the "Refresh" command from the Java
project's pop-up context menu in the Package Explorer. Then I perform a
"Team/Update" and "Team/Synchronize with Repository...". This has always
worked for the cvs plug-in, and it has been working with subclipse for
several revisions now, but...

The Team Synchronizing perspective's Synchronize view now indicates that I
have added ".svn/entries" files in every folder in my project. Obviously,
these are subversion files. But it hasn't done this previously. So, the
questions started coming hard and fast...

Is this normal?
Is this a bug with subclipse?
Should I commit the files?
Should I use TortoiseSVN to "ignore" those files?
Should I blow the project away and check it out from svn again?

I am using Eclipse SDK 3.0.1, and subclipse 0.9.22.

Thanks for your precious time.

PS: I have already Googled both the web and groups for the terms subclipse,
refresh, update, and entries, but there were no applicable results.
Received on Sun Oct 24 04:34:54 2004