Recently after installing a fresh copy of Eclipse 3.4 on my PC, I ran into an issue with the "Open Resouce" dialog ([CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[R]) where it was showing all my SVN files. Installing Subclipse is supposed to make the Eclipse IDE automatically hide the .svn-base files from showing up (via the "Team" interface) but it wasn't working out for me.

Turns out there was a very easy solution to this problem—just right click on the project and choose "Close Project" from the menu. After the project closes, just right-click on the project and select "Open Project." This should reinitialize all the settings on a project and appears to registered the handling of automatically hiding the .svn-base files.

An alternative, would be to add the find your org.eclipse.ui.ide_3.4.*.jar (org.eclipse.ui.ide_3.4.2.M20090127-1700.jar) and then modify the plugin.xml file to include the filter "*.svn-base". I don't like this option because it requires you to change a JAR that could later be updated.

If you choose that route, close Eclipse and open the JAR with a Zip extraction tool. Next, search the plugin.xml for the text "<filter". There should be one filter tag:

Now right after that line XML element, add the line:

<code>

<filter
      selected="false"
      pattern="*.svn-base">
</filter>

Save the file and add it back to your JAR. Now restart Eclipse.

Now when you click on the triangle and choose filter:

You'll now see the *.svn-base as an option to hide:

You'll only want to do this as a last ditch effort as your SVN plug-in should handle hiding these resources automatically.

However, I've always wondered why the "Navigation Filters" dialog doesn't allow you to add new filters right from the dialog.

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