RE: How to prevent a file from committing

> Sorry if this has been covered before. I have a source repository
> checked out, and need to make changes for committing. However, there
> is one file that has been changed due to my IDE's project settings
> that I do not wish to commit (since it will affect other people's
> project settings). I agree that this file should not be in the repo,
> however, for reason I won't go into, it is there. Now I need a way to
> tell Tortoise, or SVN itself that when I commit the source folder, not
> to commit this file along with it. I looked at the svn:ignore
> property, but this didn't seem to be the same thing...it was more
> along the lines of ignore what gets added, rather than ignoring
> already added files which we don't want to re-commit.
>
> Any clues?

I would recommend deleting it from source control and then adding it to the ignore list. You can do this in 1 shot by right clicking on the file in question and use "Deleting and add to ignore list..."

Barring that you can add the file to the ignore-on-commit change list. Check the docs.

BOb

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Received on 2010-02-25 21:59:43 CET