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

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    Bingo. This is different than how it behaved in earlier versions of Eclipse. There the icon changed. Probably because of the different SVN client setup. Hmmm...I don't like.
    – Stu Thompson
    Commented Dec 2, 2011 at 13:25
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    OK, have found that this is all configurable in Preferences: Team >> SVN >> Label Decorations. Thanks for the pointer. Will accept your answer once the 10 minute time limit is over.
    – Stu Thompson
    Commented Dec 2, 2011 at 13:30
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    Still seems to be how it works with Git in 2016, in Eclipse mars 2. What an ugly UI choice.
    – Warren P
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 17:15
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    Same here in Neon -- still would like to know where this is documented!
    – Dave
    Commented Dec 8, 2016 at 22:54
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    This is inaccurate. Almost all my files have the angle brackets, and it's always the same two files that don't have them. All files are up-to-date in git. I use git externally, not via Eclipse. [edit] I uninstalled the git plugin and the angle brackets are gone.
    – Mark Jeronimus
    Commented Oct 28, 2021 at 11:50

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