Eclipse plugin to exclude svn and cvs folders in text search

Posted in Eclipse,Utilities by ary on the June 19th, 2009

Once again, Sergio was complaining because matches inside svn folders were showing up in search results. Since I like challenges, I wrote this small Eclipse plugin that excludes .svn and CVS folders from searches.

Here’s the relevant file (contains also the source code).

To activate it, first copy it to your plugins folder, restart Eclipse, go to Windows -> Preferences -> General -> Search and select “Better Search Engine” in “Text Search Engine to be used”.

Update: Here‘s the same plugin for Eclipse 3.5 (the other won’t work).

Enjoy!

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  1. serch said,

    on June 22nd, 2009 at 1:44 am

    thanks a lot ary! it really helps =)

  2. Jonathan said,

    on June 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    The search filtering is included with the svn plugin for Eclipse.

    http://subclipse.tigris.org/

    See you.

  3. Ary Borenszweig said,

    on June 27th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    But I don’t want to install the SVN plugin for Eclipse :-P

  4. Jonathan said,

    on June 30th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Jajaja … ok ok … :)

  5. blaze said,

    on July 24th, 2009 at 2:18 am

    I like this theme you are using… what is it?

  6. Ary Borenszweig said,

    on July 24th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Hi blaze,

    Do you mean the WordPress theme?

  7. St.Shadow said,

    on October 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    And what about another boring folders?
    We are using another source control system and I`m sick with this .ade_path folders. Does plugin support patterns?

  8. toto said,

    on January 6th, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Thank you, it works and helps a lot !

  9. ary said,

    on February 10th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    No, the plugin doesn’t support other folders but you can modify the source code to do it.

  10. St.Shadow said,

    on February 11th, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Yes, I did it :)
    Thanks for your example – work fine for me and our team.

  11. E.V said,

    on February 26th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    Thank you for this plugin and the updated version for 3.5. Quick and easy to install with perfect results!

  12. Jerome C. said,

    on June 10th, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Excellent ! Exactly what I need, perfectly works. Thanks a lot

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