git - .gitignore file for java eclipse project

Question

I have java project that uses the Eclipse IDE.

The Eclipse workspace is pointing to this directory:

/home/srvimgprd/BUSPROJ/code_development/dime/executables/clientcode/java_axis/Eclipse

I have placed a .gitignore file in the workspace directory "Eclipse". See below.

What I need to do is to be able to download the items from the Eclipse directory onto a new machine and then compile with no issue.

Are there any concrete steps to accomplish this task? When using the .gitignore file below, nothing shows up on the target machine.

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CONTENTS OF ECLIPSE DIRECTORY (on source machine): /home/srvimgprd/BUSPROJ/code_development/dime/executables/clientcode/java_axis/Eclipse

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java_axis/Eclipse> ls -lart
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-09 04:53 RemoteSystemsTempFiles
drwxr-xr-x 4 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-09 04:55 Servers
drwxr-xr-x 4 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-09 04:58 .metadata
drwxr-xr-x 6 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-09 05:06 Axis2ClientDimeServer
drwxr-xr-x 5 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-10 08:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 imgdev development  307 2013-09-10 08:31 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x 6 imgdev development 4096 2013-09-10 08:31 .

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CONTENTS OF .gitignore FILE

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*target*
*.jar
*.war
*.ear
*.class

# eclipse specific git ignore
*.pydevproject
.project
.metadata
bin/**
tmp/**
tmp/**/*
*.tmp
*.bak
*.swp
*~.nib
local.properties
.classpath
.settings/
.loadpath

# External tool builders
.externalToolBuilders/

# Locally stored "Eclipse launch configurations"
*.launch

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18726217/gitignore-file-for-java-eclipse-project

Answer 1

put .gitignore in your main catalog

git status (you will see which files you can commit)
git add -A
git commit -m "message"
git push