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copied!<p>I have a rather large project made up of lots of...projects, each with their own Debug and Release folders along with a bunch of other files that I don't really want to commit like .rc and .user. </p> <p>At the moment I right click the top folder, click commit and eclipse asks how i would like to store all these "new files" it has detected, how do i tell it I don't want to commit any of them.</p> <p>So far i have read that i need a .cvsignore file but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I tried doing a "clean" of the project but there was still plenty of files i don't want.</p> <p>Does anyone have any advice on how to make this at the very least less painful? I have even tried doing a search on the project for certain . files I don't want and deleting them but some of them re-create themselves....</p> <p>Note: I usually just commit the files I want by selecting them individually but this time it is about 600+ files...</p> <p><em><strong>UPDATE</em></strong></p> <p>Sorry for taking so long. Thank you to everyone for their answers, they are all technically correct, none actually worked for me, but i will mark Burhan as the best answer</p> <p>I have tried the cvs ignore route before and it never seemed to work, unfortunately it still didn't work for me. </p> <p>The per directory approach does seem to work but its quite a painful process in this case. But khmarbaise is correct this is the documented method, and is actually correct.</p> <p>The Global method Burhan mentioned seemed ideal but didn't seem to work, Perhaps i have mis-understood where CVSROOT is, i always assumed it was the "CVS" folder located in the top most directory, it includes files like "Tag", "Root" etc. is this wrong?</p> <p>@thkala, the "Team->Add to .cvsignore" was always greyed out for me and therefore could not be used but again is another valid route when it does work.</p> <p>However I think i have finally realized why I have so many problems with CVS and eclipse and i would like to post what finally worked for me and what may actually be the missing link for the .cvsignore route.</p> <p>I always checked the project out this way: <strong>CVS Repositoris -> Right click the branch -> check out as -> check out as project in the workspace.</strong></p> <p>However the reason i was having so many problems with <strong>cvs and indexing</strong> what i should have done is: *<em>CVS Repositoris -> Right click the branch -> check out as -> check out as ...New Project Wizard. -> retype branch -> Makefile Project with Existing code *</em> (as a side note does anyone know how to specify the directory for the new project?)</p> <p>Anyone who didn't do this and doesn't want to re-checkout can remove the project and re-add it using "new project" </p> <p>At this point "Add to CVS ignore" was no longer greyed out. So you can now use that route if you want. </p> <p>At this point however i tried something else i hadnt used before <strong>Team->synchronize with repo</strong>. This Seemed to bring up only the <strong>Changes</strong> i had made and therefore did not have any of the "new files" which was all the files i didn't want to commit. I was therefore able to simply double check the folders and then do a blanket commit on all those files in the sync view. It is really important to note that I actually had some build generated .h and .c files, so if i had succeeded in ignoring certain files, i would have still checked in these unwanted files (silver lining i suppose).</p> <p>Perhaps i should rephrase the question to "large commit" to be more helpful to future cvs + eclipse newbies? anyone agree? </p>

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