SVN metadata appears when searching
Why would anyone ever want to see .svn folders and their children in Eclipse? If they're hidden from the Package Explorer, why can't I hide them from a Search? And if I did a naive find and replace, wouldn't this corrupt the metadata and prevent me from committing the update to the repo?
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They should not be showing up anywhere. They should be flagged as Team Private resources and hidden and ignored automatically. I've never encountered this.
Although if you did not have a SVN plug-in installed, then nothing would be flagging them as team resources.
SVN 1.7 is moving towards a single .svn folder in the root of your checkout.
Hmm. I tried the same thing, and it did not show any of the metadata in the .svn directories. I'm using Galileo now, but I've been using Eclipse for quite a while, and have never had this type of behavior in any of the versions I have used.
I'm using the subversive client. Which are you using? Perhaps this is a bug that is specific to one or the other.
I can't see how that's Subversion's fault -- it's Eclipse's "fault", in that it's no different from CVS/Entries (except that it includes full base text). Eclipse just happens to be born with knowledge of CVS folders. .svn folders are even hidden.
If you install a team provider for Subversion, it should hide .svn files from you.
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