Team private resources
It is common for repository implementations to use extra files and folders to
store information specific about the repository implementation. Although
these files may be needed in the workspace, they are of no interest to other
plug-ins or to the end user.
Team providers may use
IResource.setTeamPrivateMember(boolean)
to indicate that a resource is private to the implementation of a team
provider. Newly created resources are not private members by default, so this
method must be used to explicitly mark the resource as team private. A
common use is to mark a subfolder of the project as team private when the
project is configured for team and the subfolder is created.
Other resource API that enumerates resources (such as resource delta trees)
will exclude team private members unless explicitly requested to include
them. This means that most clients will not "see" the team
private resources and they will not be shown to the user. The resource
navigator does not show team private members by default, but users can indicate
via Preferences that they would like to see team private resources.
Attempts to mark projects or the workspace root as team private will be
ignored.