Unity creates and deletes meta files for folders inside the Asset folder.
That can create an annoying situation when using version control (that you can skip and go to the questions): someone creates a folder of files that will be ignored but forget to ignore the folder’s meta file. Unity creates the meta file and the person adds the meta to version control. Another person gets the changesets and, since he doesn’t have the folder, his Unity delete the meta file and he removes the meta file from version control. Not everyone in the team understand this, so the process is perpetuated in a loop from hell.
Surprisingly this happens all the time. So, two questions:
- Is it important to version folder meta files?
- Is there a way to automatically ignore folder meta files - particularly on git or mercurial?