Because he probably shares the project with Eclipseans, who tend to check in .classpath and .project files?
If you want IDEA to completely ignore all files with names starting with a period, then you open up IDE Settings > File Types, and try adding .* to the list of "Ignored files and folders".
Just out of curiousity, why would you have these files?
it looks quite strange
Hello jim,
You can add a pattern like ".*" (or a more specific one if you prefer) to
Settings | File Types | Files and Folders to Ignore.
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Because he probably shares the project with Eclipseans, who tend to check in .classpath and .project files?
If you want IDEA to completely ignore all files with names starting with a period, then you open up IDE Settings > File Types, and try adding .* to the list of "Ignored files and folders".