Re: how to set svn:ignore to more than one pattern?

Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi
>
> Following someone's posting about removing ignoring some files,
> I'm now trying to add ignoring some files.
>
> If I do this from my working copy:
>
> svn propset svn:ignore 'tn-*.jpg' dir1 dir2 dir3
>
> it works fine. Problem is I want to ignore a second pattern too.
> I tried using comma, pipe (a la egrep), space, but all failed
> and wound up overwriting the previous ignore value.

You need to separate the patterns with newline. Depending on your TTY
settings, you should type Ctrl-V Ctrl-J or Ctrl-V Ctrl-M to insert a
newline in the argument. This is assuming UNIX, some Windows expert
will have to say how to insert newlines into the commandline on that
platform.

  // Marcus

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Received on Wed Jul 10 22:24:43 2002