There is no way to create an Eclipse project without the .project
file (at least none that I know of), but you can tell Eclipse which files to ignore, as well.
Just go to Preferences -> Team -> Ignored Resources and add the pattern .project
.
This setting is purely Eclipse-internal and does neither affect your global svn-ignores (defined in ~/.subversion/config
) nor will it add any files to the repository.
Also, when checking out folders from SVN using Eclipse, make sure to create a General Project, not a Java Project, so the .project
file is the only file Eclipse creates.