Re: Question on global ignores

Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> I did a commit, a 'rm *~', and a 'svn status', which gave me the
> following:
>
> ! README.FIRST.txt~
> ! subversion_config_file~
>
> My understanding is that the global-ignores option should have caused
> the files ending with '~' to be ignored by 'svn status'. (Are they still
> stored in the repository?) This doesn't seem to be happening. Is
> this correct behavior? If so, what am I misunderstanding?

Ignores (global or otherwise) are for unversioned items only. For
example, the patterns filter out stuff in add and import requests (to
prevent you from making certain unversioned resources into versioned
ones). For status requests, they filter out unversioned resources
which would otherwise appears with '?' indicators. But once
versioned, Subversion never ignores an item.

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Received on Tue May 25 07:51:29 2004