We're using Git to manage our project, since multiple developers are working with it and we want to have a revision history.

We're also using the Force.com IDE for development.

I'm now seeing "File only saved locally, not to server" warnings in the Problems tab for each file in the .git subdirectory, which exists at the same level as the src subdirectory.

I'm surprised that the IDE is trying to push those files up to the Salesforce server.  Is there any way to configure the IDE to ignore that directory?