Re: svn:ignore not recursive to subdirectories

On 1 May 2003, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> writes:
>
> > I just discovered that svn:ignore does not propagate recursively to
> > subdirectories, unlike CVS.
>
> Are you sure about CVS? According to CVS documentation, the
> .cvsignore files aren't recursive either.

No, I'm not. I've only used CVS a tiny bit, and already know Subversion
better. But quoting the Subversion book, pg 90 (rev 5113)

"...Finally, while the .cvsignore patterns apply recursively from the
directory in which they reside..."

                                               Faheem.

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Received on Fri May 2 05:16:40 2003