ClearCase and Eclipse: How to hide/ignore files?

Question

I'm working with Eclipse and ClearCase and we're facing the problem that there's no "ignore"-feature in ClearCase and we're having regularly checked-in files that shouldn't have been checked in.

In Eclipse, I already found the "Ignored Resources" configuration in Window -> Preferences -> Team and have been able to ignore files that follow a specific pattern that way.

But what do I do if I want to

1. keep a folder and all its contents from being checked in (such as a target-folder containing classes and such) or
2. keep a single specific file that can't be matched by a pattern in "Ignored Resources" from being checked in?

Update: We're using the provided Eclipse-plugin.

Answer 1

Within eclipse itself, the current ClearCase plugin cannot specify files to ignores, and they will always show up with a native ls -private command as private files.

Only a dedicated GUI (like CCRC -- ClearCase Remote Client -- used as Rich Client Platform based on eclipse) has a way to specify ignore files.

Answer 2

I'd say look at creating an entry in your configspec to exclude the target file/folder.