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Once a directory has been committed to CVS, it cannot be later removed and added to .cvsignore. To replicate problem: 1) Take a project that has already been shared in CVS 2) Add a new directory to the project, add a dummy file to that directory, and commit both. 3) Delete the directory from the project, and commit 4) The CVS/Entries file in the parent directory still shows a reference to the deleted directory. The effect of which is: 5) Create a new directory of the same name in the same place 6) Eclipse recognises it as an existing shared directory. Using Eclipse alone, it is not possible to delete a directory that has been previously committed to CVS, and then have Eclipse forget it was ever shared. You need to go in and manually fudge the CVS/Entries file. Furthermore, if you try to add the directory the parent's .cvsignore file, Eclipse ignores *that*, since the CVS/Entries file will always contain the phantom directory. For a more complete description: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-cvs-dev/msg00285.html
This is due to CVS limitations and the desire in Eclipse to have the synchronize view. Basically, for the synchronize view to work properly, we need to keep track of all the directories in a project, even if they are empty. Bug 37864 is also related (as stated in a later post to the thread you mentioned). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79869 ***
