Re: Quirk with svn:ignore

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Giulio Troccoli <
giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Do you mean that the files are shown with an A in the first column?

No, they're shown as

? logs/error.log
? logs/access.log

But they're not automagically ignored, even though they match "logs/*"
which successfully is applied as an svn:ignore pattern on trunk.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> That is exactly how the feature is supposed to work. Described in book
> here:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
>

Mark, I believe you, however I don't see which part of the docs you link to
addresses this case...

This part:

*
> Matches any string of characters, including the empty string

indicates it should work regardless where it's used.

And this part:

[image: [Tip]]
>
> Even if svn:ignore is set, you may run into problems if you use shell
> wildcards in a command. Shell wildcards are expanded into an explicit list
> of targets before Subversion operates on them, so running *svn SUBCOMMAND
> ** is just like running *svn SUBCOMMAND file1 file2 file3*
>

indicates that even cd logs && svn propset svn:ignore * . should fail if
there are no files inside of logs, correct? But it doesn't fail it works in
that case.

It seems to me that if my shell is indeed expanding asterisk character to a
list of files to ignore, then ignore * on logs should fail similarly until
explicit files are there to pass to svn:ignore command.

I'm attempting to ignore all future files & folders, "*", inside a folder
that is empty, before any files exist inside it. It's always worked for me
just putting ignore * on logs folder directly, I just never tried putting
it "one level up" before and was kind of confused as to why it didn't work.

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