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

GitHub is maintaining a community "gitignore" project that catalogs suggested filespecs for ignores for various platforms, editors and languages: https://github.com/github/gitignore

Eclipse ignores are here: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Eclipse.gitignore

(If there are other filespecs that they should know about, let them know!)