Re: [TSVN] Re: Low priority commit-dialog feature requests

Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> SteveKing wrote:
>
>>> 1. Allow "hiding" of files in the file list. This is similar to
>>> ignoring them, but only lasts for the duration of the commit and
>>> makes no property changes.
>>
>> What would that be good for?
>> Apart from that, if you hide files/folders from there without
>> Subversion (the library) knowing it you could end up committing
>> those hidden entries anyway!
>
> The biggest reason is that I often have other source trees grafted
> into my tree for testing purposes and don't want to clutter the
> global ignore lists with stuff that only exists on my machine. I
> usually ignore or delete the files within a short period of time, but
> it would be nice to be able to hide it if I need to do a commit while
> it is there so I can verify that I've included all of the necessary
> files for my commit.

svn:ignore affects other users. Global ignores as set up in
TSVN->settings are local to your PC, so if you always put that stuff in
a folder called Matthew_Test you can just add */Matthew_Test to your
global ignore list.

>> If you want to do that, I suggest you use the TSVN tab in the
>> explorer properties dialog to set the svn:ignore property directly.
>
> The recursive svn:ignore doesn't work very well, because it ends up
> blowing away more specific ignores lower down the tree.

Huh? How does it do that? It should just append the pattern to whatever
is there already. If it doesn't then it's a bug in subversion.

Simon

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