A Small SVN/Eclipse Pointer

I'm sure that this is well documented and common practice, but I'd never run in to a problem submitting my Eclipse .project files to a Subversion repository before. I mean, why not, right? The .project file is included when you first try to commit, it's in the same folder as the rest of the files versioned by Subversion, so what could possibly be wrong with doing that?

When I went to check out a project using Subclipse in to a fresh install of Eclipse, I found out why. The new project wizard won't let you check out a Subversion-controlled project if there's a .project file in the contents you are trying to check out. Oops!

The moral of the story: don't put your .project file in to the repository. Not that it needs to be there anyway, but that was my noob mistake.

As I couldn't delete the .project file using Subclipse, I fired up the lovely and handy Versions to take care of that for me. Once the .project file was deleted from the repository (along with a note about my foolishness in the commit log), I was good to check out using the new project wizard in Eclipse.