Eclipse and EGit: how to commit build directories

Question

I'm using Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) with CDT and EGit 2.0.0. I want to commit build directories ( Debug and Release ) because they contain makefile , so if I want to compile my project in a host without Eclipse, I can clone the repository, cd to the Release directory and call make all .

My .gitignore is this:

*.o
*.d
Debug/MyApplication
Release/MyApplication

If I call git status from a console, it tells that Debug and Release directories are untracked, so I can call git add . .

From Eclipse, this is impossible: it simply ignore Debug and Release directories.

So... how to force Eclipse to stage these directories? I don't want to call git from command line everytime makefile changes.

Answer 1

Update to EGit 2.1 with the following update site (or use the nightly update site ):

http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates

EGit used to ignore derived resources (eg Eclipse build output folders) before 2.1.

In 2.1, this was changed so that it is consistent with Git, see bug 359052 . It now only ignores files that are explicitly excluded (eg by .gitignore ).