topic Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders in Kinetis Design Studio

Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

aerodame — Tue, 24 May 2016 20:53:59 GMT

What does the ? mean on a folder in the Project Explorer? And what does it mean to "FORMAT" the source?

Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

TICS_Fiona — Wed, 25 May 2016 04:28:55 GMT

Hello Stephen

Label Decorations are used by CVS to show important synchronization information about workspace resources. The ‘?’ decoration on a file or folder icon indicates that the resource is not under version control.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards

Fiona Kuang

TIC - Technical Information Center

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Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

aerodame — Wed, 25 May 2016 19:07:46 GMT

OK, I use GIT and oh, great I see that the ?'s go away when I check in all my files. One thing that is problematic is all of the .metadata that I can't easily exclude using .gitignore (or don't know what data I should exclude). Does anyone have advice on best practices there?

Also, to my second question. What is the Format Source?

Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

BlackNight — Thu, 26 May 2016 06:37:07 GMT

Hi Stephen,

nothing of the .metadata shall be in the version control system, so you need to exclude it completely.

The common usage with Version control systems is to have the project/project folder *outside* of the workspace, and not inside. that way you do not need to care about the .metadata.

Related to that topic, there is information about what to share and not her:

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2012/03/17/dissection-of-mcu10-projects/

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/03/29/version-control-with-processor-expert-projects/

If not using Processor Expert, you can ignore all the things about Processor Expert files.

I hope this helps,

Erich

Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

BlackNight — Thu, 26 May 2016 06:44:43 GMT

and another article about how to use workspaces with version control, see https://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/02/02/eclipse-workspace-tips/

Erich

Re: Question mark (?) on KDS Folders

TICS_Fiona — Thu, 26 May 2016 07:38:30 GMT

Hello Stephen

I have no experience on GIT. For version control problem, I think user only needs to check in the project folder, excluding ‘Debug’ subfolder. The “.metadata” records the configurations for workspace, not for project, so “.metadata” can be excluded from version control.

The “Source->Format” commands applies the full “C/C++ > Code Style > Formatter” preferences to the entire contents of the active editor, or to the selection if there is one.

Best Regards

Fiona Kuang

TIC - Technical Information Center

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