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Fixes #1217. Once again ignore .classpath and .project in the Eclipse template. This has been requested in multiple PRs such as #1338 and #1221 and is essentially a reversion of #805. I copy the explanation for this change from the discussion in #1217 by @segfly: *In short*: I can't point to any counter-documentation off the top of my head. I just know from experience these files pollute a project's repo without adding value - that is, unless everyone contributing is using Eclipse and no-one is using dependency management. And even then, the guidance provided by the eclipse docs is bad advice. *In Long*: The .classpath file is used by Eclipse to maintain the project's classpath during automatic compile (every save of a file). In the olden days, one would manually configure the project within the Eclipse UI and include all the dependent jars necessary to compile your project. Eclipse then wrote that configuration out to the .classpath file. In theory, this file could be shared with others so they did not have to manually configure their eclipse classpath. In practice, I never saw it work out quite so well due to eventual bloating of the classpath with needless jars or jars that only existed on one person's machine. Mind you, many people back then also used to check their dependent jars into version control along with their source. Dependency management tools like Gradle and Maven have done away with all that of course. But they also integrate nicely with Eclipse and manage the project classpath dynamically. The .classpath file is basically rebuilt based on changes to the build.gradle file or pom.xml file. Effectively, this renders the whole point of checking in the .classpath moot as it is easily rebuilt by the Maven or Gradle plugin. The .project file is another animal completely. It basically describes what plugins should be applied to the project as configured in the Eclipse UI. Again the theory is it could be shared and creates a happy world. But due to different eclipse versions people may have, different plugins installed, etc. sharing the .project file actually causes more issues. And I've seen many projects unable to open due to a bad .project file - requiring one to delete it anyway (which then of course, when someone recreates it, they inevitably check it in over the old one and end up breaking someone else's environment). The bottom line is, regardless of what the eclipse documentation says, these are very much internal configuration files for eclipse and best left out of a repo.
Globally Useful gitignores
This directory contains globally useful gitignores, e.g. OS-specific and editor specific.
For more on global gitignores: http://help.github.com/git-ignore/
And a good blog post about 'em: http://augustl.com/blog/2009/global_gitignores