So does this mean that subversion can never be told to ignore folders,
only files within folders on which you can set properties?
Setting svn:ignore to * on 20 folders will take quite a while. I thought
there was a way to do something like
svn:ignore=
Folder1\*
Folder2\*
Folder3\*
etc?
Nick...
Douglas Stonham wrote:
> Hi Nick...
>
>> OK, I've just noticed that my svn:ignore property wasn't actually
>> working anywhere, it just appeared that it was because I had a similar
>> set of options set up in the tsvn ignore settings.
>
> In the Subversion properties for the folder, try setting svn:ignore to just *
>
> That will ignore anything in the folder.
>
> Note that, despite the way it is displayed in the top box, the ignore
> patterns in the text entry box must be newline separated if you have more
> than one.
>
>> Is there no way to ignore all bin and obj files in a hierarchy
>> (whereever they occur) on all checked out working copies? It seems that
>> the recursive flag doesn't seem to work.
>
> The other thing to note is that the 'recursive' box is NOT a flag... All
> it does is allow you to set one property recursively down all folders as a
> one-off operation.
>
> To do all bin and obj folders, even ones which haven't been created yet,
> you'll need to look at the global ignore settings (which are local to a
> wc, not project based).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Douglas
>
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