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Alessandro Pezzato
Alessandro Pezzato

Reputation: 8802

Eclipse and EGit: how to commit build directories

I'm using Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) with CDT and EGit 2.0.0. I want to commit build directories (Debug and Release) because they contain makefile, so if I want to compile my project in a host without Eclipse, I can clone the repository, cd to the Release directory and call make all.

My .gitignore is this:

*.o
*.d
Debug/MyApplication
Release/MyApplication

If I call git status from a console, it tells that Debug and Release directories are untracked, so I can call git add ..

From Eclipse, this is impossible: it simply ignore Debug and Release directories.

So... how to force Eclipse to stage these directories? I don't want to call git from command line everytime makefile changes.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 869

Answers (1)

robinst
robinst

Reputation: 31417

Update to EGit 2.1 with the following update site (or use the nightly update site):

http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates

EGit used to ignore derived resources (e.g. Eclipse build output folders) before 2.1.

In 2.1, this was changed so that it is consistent with Git, see bug 359052. It now only ignores files that are explicitly excluded (e.g. by .gitignore).

Upvotes: 2

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