ClearCase and Eclipse: How to hide/ignore files?

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B.E. picture B.E. · Jul 9, 2009 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I'm working with Eclipse and ClearCase and we're facing the problem that there's no "ignore"-feature in ClearCase and we're having regularly checked-in files that shouldn't have been checked in.

In Eclipse, I already found the "Ignored Resources" configuration in Window -> Preferences -> Team and have been able to ignore files that follow a specific pattern that way.

But what do I do if I want to

  1. keep a folder and all its contents from being checked in (such as a target-folder containing classes and such) or
  2. keep a single specific file that can't be matched by a pattern in "Ignored Resources" from being checked in?

Update: We're using the provided Eclipse-plugin.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Jul 9, 2009

Within eclipse itself, the current ClearCase plugin cannot specify files to ignores, and they will always show up with a native ls -private command as private files.

Only a dedicated GUI (like CCRC -- ClearCase Remote Client -- used as Rich Client Platform based on eclipse) has a way to specify ignore files.

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