In Eclipse, how can I exclude some files (maybe based on the .svn extension or filename) from being copied to the output folder?

Answer 1

That sounds like your building process is using versionned directory within your subversion workspace.

Should you not have your 'output' folder and/or your 'tst' folder be made 'private' ? (that is without any .svn, and ignored by subversion)

Answer 2

Have you tried to add

**/.svn/

to the Exclusion patterns at the Source preferences of the project's build path settings?

Answer 3

Sure, that easy: at Project Properties -- Java Build Path you can add exclusion filters on every source folder. There, you can add an exclusion pattern as *.svn

Answer 4

You could also try installing the Subversion plugin (Subclipse) for Eclipse.

Answer 5

I have been looking for an answer to this very problem for a while now. Why oh why does everyone assume that this has to be done using svn ignore? What if you aren't using source control? I know it is a bad practice and I am using source control in my project. Isn't there a simple way to say "hey eclipse don't worry about the 13 MB dojo folder I just copied into my WebContent directory". Pulling svn into the picture seems to confuse the matter. To me this is an issue between the editor and the files in the project dir. It is very annoying to have eclipse try and validate all that code that isn't part of the project.