How can I exclude some folders from my Eclipse project?

Question

I\'m adding an eclipse project to our existing code-base, and I\'d like to know if there is a way to exclude some directories from being picked up by eclipse at all? The reason

Answer 1

The way I've always done it is to explicitly check out projects as peers. e.g:

~/myworkspace/goodproject
~/myworkspace/3rdparty

then import only "goodproject" into eclipse. If "3rdparty" is a subdirectory of goodproject, you can fake it out... Say for example your svn project looks like this:

project/
       src/
          main/
          3rdparty/

You can locally create project/src/ then checkout only the "main" directory, and have eclipse rely on a packaged version (e.g. point to the jar if your project is java).