Can't unignore files in Team Explorer Everywhere in Eclipse

Question

I am using TFVC.

I have two files which show the [Ignored] tag in project explorer. Right clicking on them, unignore is greyed out.

The files are .jasper files from the Jasper reporting framework, located in /src/main/resources in one of my modules. No other files in that folder have this problem.

I do have a .tfignore file, but it doesn't have anything that would match these files:

target
.settings
.project
.classpath
\<redacted module name>\application.properties
\<redacted module name>\.springBeans
\<redacted module name>\app
\<redacted module name>\tree
\tree

It's only for my environment -- my teammates aren't seeing it, so I know it's not a TFS server config issue.

Answer 1

First in your mapped folder at local computer, double check your local .tfignore file. And since the effects of the .tfignore file are recursive. Check if there are any .tfignore files in sub-folders to override the effects of a .tfignore file in a parent folder.

And you could also try to explicitly declare do no ignore the files in the .tfignore, then save it and restart the eclipse.

# Do not ignore .jasper files in this folder nor in any of its sub-folders
!*.jasper

Another possibility is related to cache issue, try to clear the cache info(check in or back up the local changes first) in team explorer everywhere.

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\\Microsoft\Team Explorer

More detail about the cache info please refer this thread.