Eclipse has the ability to prevent certain files from being incorporated into projects or from being scanned during file searches. The limits are applied by way of patterns in the file names. It may well be the case that several IDEs are used in the development of projects which will litter the projects' folders with IDE support files. These can get in the way of Eclipse, but can be ignored with this resource limiting provision. To get there: Right click on a project Choose Properties Expand Resource Choose Resource Filters Some common "exclude" filters might be: .buildpath (file-level should be fine) .git (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) *.komodoproject (file-level should be fine) .project (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) .settings (folder-level, and should exclude children as well) *.sublime-* (file-level should be fine) Adding these filters to an Eclipse project should allow the placement of project file...
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