I've been asked to take ownership of an old code base. There are a lot of unusual things in the git repo including loads directories called ".metadata". Each of these directories contains a one or more properties files that defines the following fields:
- version
- relpath
- project
- project-uid
Does anybody know what a .metadata directory is for and Can I delete them?
My best guess is that somebody has included loads of files is source control are not required any more. Maybe the source control system was migrated? Maybe it's from an old IDE?
BTW - I have tried to use Google to find out, but any searches that contain directory ".metadata" appear to ignore the leading dot in ".metadata". Consequently I'm getting thousands of links to pages that tell me what the ls command does or the various ways or reading the same sort of information if different programming languages. :-/
