When looking at my project in the package explorer, there is a file called "Icon" in every Folder and package. The file is empty and has zero bites. Because of the large size of my project there are quite a lot of them that end up pushing files I want to access of the bottom of the screen, and being a general annoyance.
Why do these appear and is there any way to hide them?
Here is a picture:
If you are not created these files then these were created by some framework or tool/plugin used in your eclipse. Like VSS creates vss files and SVN .svn folder and files.
Check this post how to hide files from package explorer to know how to hide files in package explorer. But note that only hiding doesn't prevent these files from pushing.
To avoid/ignore pushing these file into git repo check this also refer this post GIT and pushing with ignored files
