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What does the > (greater than bracket) mean beside file names in Eclipse's Package Explorer?

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I'm setting up a new dev machine with Eclipse 3.7 Indigo. After pulling a my code down from SVN, the source tree in the Package Explorer is intermittently littered with a > to the left of the file name The parent package names have them too. (Note that this is an AspectJ project, but I don't think that matters.)

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What does the > indicate in the Eclipse Package Manager?

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Stu Thompson Avatar asked Dec 02 '11 13:12

Stu Thompson


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It means the file has been modified as compared to the version in your source control repository.

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Chris Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 21:09

Chris