I hope i am not alone when i had issues copying .classpath and .project files on the windows environment. I was trying to import my old non-eclipse java projects into eclipse. Eclipse did not allow me to create the project since it did not have these files in the project. So i sent an email from work to my personal account with some sample .classpath and .project files . Windows did not let me copy the .classpth no matter what i tried . I finally created a new project and copied the .classpath and .project files . Then i dowloaded the original files from my mail server and overwrote the sample files.It is weird that i had to do this much work but I am sure i am not alone here.
I am tired of .classpath and .project files. Everytime someone checked in .classpath and .project files into SVN it messed up my local environment. I know the developers can use .svnignore or .cvsignore but as we all know humans can make mistakes under stress. If .classpath and .project files are not checked in then the whole project has to be recreated by every developer who has to work on the project so it really made sense for me to check in the files.
I really don’t have a perfect solution to this problem as this was the way eclipse was built. The only option seem to teach every developer to be more organized and not check in the files.
