.classpath and .project – check into version control or not?

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Definitively yes, as I said in “Do you keep your project files under version control?“

“Load it up, set it up, go.”

But… this is actually true only for recent Eclipse3.5 settings, where build paths support relative paths:

Build path supports relative paths

And Eclipse3.6 would be better, as it supports relative paths for path variables in Linked Resources:

path variable with relative path
(since 3.6M5)

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