How to resolve "Publishing failed: Error creating zip file XXX.jar: duplicate entry: .svn/entries"

Question

I have a modular Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse. When I try to publish this project to my embedded Tomcat server, I get this error:

Publishing failed
Error creating zip file XXX-web.jar: duplicate entry: .svn/entries
duplicate entry: .svn/entries
Error creating zip file XXX-domain.jar: duplicate entry: .svn/entries
duplicate entry: .svn/entries
Error creating zip file XXX-services.jar: duplicate entry: .svn/entries
duplicate entry: .svn/entries
Error creating zip file XXX-repository.jar: duplicate entry: .svn/entries
duplicate entry: .svn/entries

It's clear there is a problem creating the JARs because of the SVN files, but how can I instruct Eclipse to ignore anything in the .svn directory during the creation of JARs?

Answer 1

Regarding your eclipse project, could you:

• check if you reproduce the problem with the latest eclipse? (3.5 Galileo)
• if yes,
  • define a new workspace in which you ignore all .svn directories (and try to publish then): see this SO answer.
  • OR: add .svn to the list of filtered resources: see this SO answer (and try the publication)

Answer 2

I'd suggest installing a subversion plugin such as Subclipse.
It should automatically fix your problem. You can still use your external SVN client and it gives you a visual flag of the files you've modified in the Package Explorer and Navigator views.