Re: [TSVN] Ignore folders

Nick Gilbert wrote:

> I assumed it wouldn't do that unless I put in *obj* or something in my
> exclude pattern. Are wildcards not used on the exclude pattern then?

Depends. AFAIK Subversion uses some kind of regexp functionality for the
patterns. Don't know much about that...

>> Also, I would strongly recommend that you use the svn:ignore property
>> to exclude whole folders. That way all others will have those
>> generated dirs excluded too.
>
>
> I had thought of that, but you can only ignore individual folders - you
> can't specify any kind of mask using this method unless I'm mistaken. Eg
> I couldn't say 'ignore all thumbs.db files and all obj directories in
> everyone's working copies' could I?

Sure you can! Just select the folder, then choose "properties" in the
context menu from the explorer, jump to the Subversion tab and set the
svn:ingore property manually. There you can specify the same patterns as
you do in the settings dialog!

Stefan

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Received on Thu Jun 24 16:00:33 2004