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

I routinely keep .project and .classpath, not only are they safe for git but useful.

.class and .settings are in my gitignore. Those are generated and person specific respectively.