Mercurial ignore-file for Eclipse and Android development

Question

I have seen samples for Mercurial ignore files for Visual Studio, amongst others.

I\'ve just started playing around with Android development, and I also use this time to

Answer 1

The eclipse files should definitely be added. The general guideline is to add:

• everything that is hand written/typed
• the minimal subset of everything else necessary to build the project

That last one is where your judgement comes in. It clearly excludes the .jar files you build yourself and your final .apk, but does it include third party .jar's you use? Some people do include them, but better is to include a configuration file for a dependency manager like 'ivy' which lets the next builder download the requirements they need automatically.

After auto-creating a project in my tools of choice, I'll just do a command like this:

hg status --unknown --no-status >> .hgignore

which adds the list of all unknown files to .hgignore. Then I go in and remove things I wants saved (ex: .project) and wildcard files that will grow siblings (ex: **.class)