Share folder including Eclipse workspace with Git between WinXP and Mac OS X

Question

I have this general project folder of mine which includes a variety of stuff: text, images, binary files etc. I want and need to keep this project in version control under git, so if I mess up something I can revert to a previous version of all files.

One thing inside this project is an Eclipse IDE Java workspace with all it's contents.

My questions is, how can I share this general project including the Eclipse workspace between my Mac OS X and WinXP computers so that pushes and pulls would go as smoothly as possible?

As it is now, whenever I push from e.g. OSX to remote repository and pull from there to my XP machine, the classpaths and stuff goes all wrong again and I need to put down quite an effort to sort things up.

Answer 1

I'd set up the machines to ignore any OS specific information

this can be acomplished with putting a file named .gitignore in the root of the working directory of the repository.

in .gitignore

/path/not/to/share/*

Answer 2

Not sure about "the stuff" (may be exporting preferences and re-importing them after the git pull could help.

Regarding the paths, I would definitively recommend configuring your project with linked directories and a path variable for linked resources: that variable is set per eclipse installation and would remain valid for a given machine.