Which files and folders for version control

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This is just a newbie question, but what files and folders should be kept in version control software (we use mercurial, but this isn't the subject)?

I think there are those files and folders:

src/
res/
lib/
native/
override/
test/
build.xml
codenameone_settings.properties
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Do you have some other recommendation?

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codenameone

1 Answers

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Your list seems to be about right. For reference this is what we use as our .gitignore file in our projects:

*.jar
nbproject/private/
build/
nbbuild/
dist/
lib/CodenameOne_SRC.zip
lib/impl/

Notice we didn't fully exclude the lib directory only its jars, zip and impl subdirectory. This means that cn1libs that we include will be under source control which isn't necessarily the best policy (since they are binary) but its convenient.

Also check out Working With A Codename One Project In Git/SVN version control

I cover the specific particulars of working with the resource file and res file hierarchy in version control in that answer.