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2Aug/060

Get rid of /CVS folders in your Eclipse project

If you've ever had to move your Java projects around and at the same time, need to sync to a CVS, you'll know that having the CVS folders in the subdirectories of your project can really cause havoc. Here's a simple way of removing them in Eclipse (sorry to other IDE users, I'm pro Eclipse ;) ):

  1. Right click on the project
  2. Go to Team --> Disconnect
  3. When prompted, choose to delete the CVS meta data

I wish I had known about this earlier. Then I wouldn't have resorted to writing a recursive directory-deleting util to remove them :)

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