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Removing DOT from .project and other files in eclipse installation [message #1703350]

Thu, 30 July 2015 19:01

Eclipse User

So eclipse appends a '.' to the front of a lot of the files it uses in a workspace and in the install directory. There's nothing wrong with this, except that I want to sync my workspace and Eclipse install in between computers. My company REQUIRES us to use Box and Box has an asinine (and unconfigurable) policy of ignoring a number of files (including any DOT prefix files, such as .project or .pmd.

I'm running this in Windows 7. Is there anything that says I can't just rename all the DOT prefix files to remove that dot? Would that break anything? I ran a preliminary test on a few test projects and found that I could open the project even after renaming ".project" to just "project".

Am I making a mistake? I really want to be able to do this if it's possible.

Re: Removing DOT from .project and other files in eclipse installation [message #1703466 is a reply to message #1703350]

Fri, 31 July 2015 14:47

Eclipse User

".project" is hardcoded in org.eclipse.core.resources.IProjectDescription.DESCRIPTION_FILE_NAME

".classpath" is hardcoded in org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.CLASSPATH_FILENAME

".settings" is hardcoded in org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.DEFAULT_PREFERENCES_DIRNAME

I don't think your experiments will make you happy, sorry.

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