Add .settings as it is needed by IDE's gradle.

.gitignore

@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@
 /target/
 .idea
 .gradle/
-.settings/
 .DS_Store

.settings/gradle/org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.core.prefs

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.core.preferences.GradleProjectPreferences
-#Wed Jun 10 13:28:05 CEST 2015
-build.family.org.gradle.tooling.model.eclipse.HierarchicalEclipseProject=;
-org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.linkedresources=
-org.springsource.ide.eclipse.gradle.rootprojectloc=../ch.psi.daq.buildall

.settings/org.eclipse.buildship.core.prefs

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+build.commands=org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder
+connection.arguments=
+connection.gradle.distribution=GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION(WRAPPER)
+connection.java.home=null
+connection.jvm.arguments=
+connection.project.dir=../ch.psi.daq.buildall
+derived.resources=.gradle,build
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+natures=org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature
+project.path=\:ch.psi.daq.queryrest

.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<faceted-project>
+  <installed facet="cloudfoundry.standalone.app" version="1.0"/>
+</faceted-project>