Projects, Local settings and Global settings

[Airslash]

Hello,

not really sure if this is the correct forum, but there's something I need to check/ask. It will probably be a logical thing for seasoned developers though...

Here are the company we are using RAD Studio 2007 a.k.a CodeGear from Borland.
The projects we are developing all use the same dependencies and libraries regardless of the computer they're beeing developed upon. The only thing that changes is the location of the Include paths etc.

my idea was that the IDE normally has a project.local file to store these paths for the project and the global settings used by the IDE.
In our SVN however these .local files are beeing commited and overwritten everytime someones makes a new commit.
So when I checkout a project from SVN, all the includes of the project don't work due missing libs and incorrect paths.

Is my assumption correct that the .local files need to be removed from SVN and only saved on the pc that develops em?
Also, include paths need to be set in the IDE and not in the project?

[Niheel]

Good practice would be to not include config files in the SVN repository and force each developer to keep their own copy on their workstation.

But to make sure that everyone gets the updates to config options make a default file that has the options and include that in the project.