Opening Gradle + Java projects in Zed with the Java extension creates undeletable files

[MaddyGuthridge]

What happened?

When I opened a Gradle project in Zed with the Java extension enabled, 3 undeletable files are created:

• .settings/org.eclipse.buildship.core.prefs
• app/.settings/org.eclipse.buildship.core.prefs
• app/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs

Given that these files are not present in the default .gitignore for Java projects, and are not created by other editors, I imagine this not intended behaviour.

What did you expect to happen?

The files are not created.

Environment

Zed: 0.219.4
Platform: NixOS 25.11

[tartarughina]

Thanks @MaddyGuthridge for reporting this issue.

After investigating, I found a relevant discussion here: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/buildship-do-not-generate-settings-org-eclipse-jdt-core-prefs/33415

The three files you mentioned are created by the language server (JDTLS), not by this extension directly.

Since VS Code also uses JDTLS as its underlying language server and you mentioned not experiencing this issue there, I'll investigate what VS Code passes to the LSP to prevent these files from being generated. Alternatively, I'll determine whether it's safe to delete these files or whether they should simply be added to your source control ignore list.