On 2. Oct 2019, at 23:03, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
In my Eclipse, this option is turned on, yet I don't observe Eclipse adding .gitignore files to every project if there is already a proper .gitignore in the root. I import projects into Eclipse by first checking out with a separate client (Sourcetree) and then doing an "Import existing Maven projects" in Eclipse. -- Richard
