Ignore classpath and project from Git

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I keep myself telling me and others not to commit  classpath and    project files and use Maven    Somehow  Junior developers always ignore certain rules and commits those files and it s much better to have such files for newbies who can jump and start using the code   Now from myside  I would like to try do something  When I clone the repo  I will get  classpath and  project files and certainly they get modified in my system       But I want them not to be committed and should always be ignored while   synchronizing with Git  So that my changes in local system doesn t   mess up with Git and Git changes of those files doesn t mess up my   local files    How do I achieve this  Anyway to mark those files to be ignored in such a way

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Add the below lines in  gitignore and place the file inside ur project folder   target    classpath    project   settings    springBeans

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If the  project and  classpath are already committed  then they need to be removed from the index  but not the disk   git rm --cached  project git rm --cached  classpath   Then the  gitignore would work  and that file can be added and shared through clones   For instance  this gitignore io api eclipse file will then work  which does include     Eclipse Core        project    JDT-specific  Eclipse Java Development Tools        classpath   Note that you could use a  Template Directory  when cloning  make sure your users have an environment variable  GIT TEMPLATE DIR set to a shared folder accessible by all   That template folder can contain an info exclude file  with ignore rules that you want enforced for all repos  including the new ones  git init  that any user would use     As commented by Abdollah     When you change the index  you need to commit the change and push it    Then the file is removed from the repository  So the newbies cannot checkout the files  classpath and  project from the repo

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Use a  gitignore file  This allows you to ignore certain files  http   git-scm com docs gitignore  Here s an example Eclipse one  which handles your classpath and project files  https   github com github gitignore blob master Global Eclipse gitignore

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The git solution for such scenarios is setting SKIP-WORKTREE BIT  Run only the following command   git update-index --skip-worktree  classpath  gitignore   It is used when you want git to ignore changes of files that are already managed by git and exist on the index  This is a common use case for config files   Running git rm --cached doesn t work for the scenario mentioned in the question  If I simplify the question  it says       How to have  classpath and  project on the repo while each one can   change it locally and git ignores this change    As I commented under the accepted answer  the drawback of git rm --cached is that it causes a change in the index  so you need to commit the change and then push it to the remote repository  As a result   classpath and  project won t be available on the repo while the PO wants them to be there so anyone that clones the repo for the first time  they can use it   What is SKIP-WORKTREE BIT   Based on git documentaion      Skip-worktree bit can be defined in one  long  sentence  When reading an entry  if it is marked as skip-worktree  then Git pretends its working directory version is up to date and read the index version instead    Although this bit looks similar to assume-unchanged bit  its goal is different from assume-unchanged bit   s  Skip-worktree also takes precedence over assume-unchanged bit when both are set    More details is available here

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