We commit the project specific files including those in the .settings directory. Doing so allows us to control common coding standards, templates, compilers warnings, etc in Eclipse across the development team.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:48 AM, ossi petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hallo > > well the macen guide also recommends to not commit environment specific > files. since they can be easily create via 'mvn eclipse:m2eclipse' it > seems not be be a big task. > > but in our company we develop with the same eclipse version, the same > java version and so on. so it makes no sense to not ocmmit these eclipse > files. no other IDE is used and the files with m2eclipse dont change > that much. maybe if you have linux and windows machines in the same > project you run into trouble. > > still yoh could branch single files in svn in the case of workarounds. > > the .classpath and .project files change for unknown reasons. sometimes > only the order of attributes in those files differs. > with us these changes seem to disappear after a while. some eclipse > installations dont change the file back and can work with the new > version. so commiting those files shouldnt hurt. as soon as it does then > i would disallow to checkin those files. but we do commit those files > and have no real issues with it. > > for the project work we commit those files. if you do open source or > frameworks i would agree: these files dont belong into scm. > > > regards > > op > > > > > Damien Lecan schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to know if .project and .classpath files should be commited > > in SCM when using M2Eclipse ? I have never done that with > > maven-eclipse-plugin, but now I commit them when working with > > M2Eclipse. > > > > .project never changes, so it's not a problem to commit it. > > > > But sometimes classpathentry tags are switched in .classpath (I don't > > know why), and my collegues don't know if they have to commit it or > > not. > > Why order of classpathentry tags is not consistant ? > > > > We are working with M2Eclipse 0.9.6. > > > > Thanks > > > > Damien > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
