After I cloned uima-uimaj, I imported it into Eclipse. To my surprise, Eclipse inserted a .gitignore file into every subproject (there was a .gitignore at the top level).
I think this behavior could be turned off by a Eclipse preferences setting: Window -> Preferences -> Team -> Git -> Projects and uncheck "Automatically ignore derived resources by adding them to .gitignore. With this checked, it adds a .gitignore with one line: /target/ Is this the right way to set up Eclipse? -Marshall
