Re: svn:ignore Question

Doug Gorley <douggorley@shaw.ca> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:40, Philip Martin wrote:
>> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>>
>> > Doug Gorley <douggorley@shaw.ca> writes:
>> >>
>> >> (/home/www/temp/irmconference_website) $ svn proplist --verbose .
>> >> Properties on '':
>> >> svn:ignore : .*.swp
>> >>
>> >> (/home/www/temp/irmconference_website) $ svn status
>> >> ? branches/page_header_redesign/cgi-bin/.process_registration.cgi.swp
>>
>> Huh? Did you really type 'svn status' with no path and get a path
>> with several directories in the output? Perhaps you really ran
>> 'svn status branches/page_header_redesign/cgi-bin', in which case you
>> need to set svn:ignore on that directory.

Ignore that, I don't know what I was thinking last night!

> Sure did; I ran 'svn status' from the root of my working directory; the
> only file that had been updated was buried 3 subdirs below.

Setting svn:ignore on a directory only affects items in that
directory, not items in sub-directories. You have shown that
svn:ignore is set on '.', but I suspect it is not set on the
sub-directory 'branches/page_header_redesign/cgi-bin'?

-- 
Philip Martin
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