What of Eclipse project .metadata can I safely ignore in Git/Mercurial?

Question

We have the code for an Eclipse RCP application in an Eclipse workspace containing multiple Java projects. We are using Mercurial with a simple .hgignore just *.class (but the s

Answer 1

The files i'm personally aware of are:

• version.ini (not very exciting)
• .plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.core/variablesAndContainers.dat (classpath variables)
• .plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects/*/.location (projects in the workspace)

Somewhere, i have an Eclipse workspace used for testing some Eclipse-related tools that is pretty severely cut down, but works. I'll see if i can dig it out.