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Eclipse file search finds the same file multiple times


In Eclipse I have two maven projects A and B, where A is a parent for B. The directory structure is the following:

A/pom.xml
A/B/pom.xml
A/B/...

Then I use File search (Ctrl+H) to find any file in the project B. The search result window shows the file two times with different relative paths:

A/B/<my_file>
B/<my_file>

So, the same file is shown twice. Obviously, the first search result is reduntant. Is there a way to exclude these duplicate search results?


Solution

  • What I personally do to avoid this is marking each module in the parent project as derived (right-click on the folder > properties > Attributes: Derived).

    Then when you perform a file search, uncheck "Consider derived resources" (I don't think it is checked by default) and you won't get the A/B/<my_file>.

    The only inconvenience is that you must do this for each module, and each time a new module is added.