What do I need to leave out of Git for Eclipse CDT Projects

Question

I have a project that has it's include files pretty much in the project folder...I don't use anything that's in, say, /usr/lib...It's all in ./whatever.

I'd like to share a project, with the intent that people will import it into Eclipse and then will be able to go from there. However, this never works right, because when I push changes, my environment variables get pushed too. This breaks other peoples projects when the pull from Git.

What do I need to exclude from revision tracking to make sure that the environment variables don't get changed with each remote push, but that things like new Include Paths do?

Thanks

Answer 1

From my experience, do not include

.project
.cproject
.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.prefs   <- CDT support stuff
.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs   <- file encodings
.settings/org.eclipse.core.runtime.prefs     <- line terminators

in .gitignore. This will reduce the fidelity of importing your project within your team. Files to consider including:

.buildpath                            <- system specifics
.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs  <- system specifics

I truly wish CDT was a bit more relocatable friendly (using 6.0 and 8.8).

Good luck

Randall (Git platform maintainer for NonStop)

Answer 2

You need to add the unwanted files to your .gitignore file. For eclipse I believe your .gitignore must look like

.project
.buildpath