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Re: svn:ignore vs. .cvsignore

From: David Waite <dwaite_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2004-12-08 08:06:57 CET

I can answer this, because I've seen people as well who miss
.cvsignore. Making .cvsignore self-referential and outside the
repository, each user is given the ability to adjust their own local
ignores, per-directory as they please.

-David Waite

On 08 Dec 2004 00:44:28 -0600, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> Eugene Voytitsky <viy75@ukr.net> writes:
>
>
> > Yes, I know 2 ways to specify ignores for SVN:
> > 1. (server-side, global) by setting `svn:ignore` property for dir
> > 2. (client-side, global) by editing %APPDATA%\Subversion\config
> > `global-ignores` property of [miscellany] section
> >
> > And I even read the discussion
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=300438
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=300459
> >
> > Essence of the discussion is:
> > "Everything you'd put into a .cvsignore can be put into the svn:ignore
> > property with the same results."
> >
> > But I don't agree that result is absolutely the same.
> > Each of 2 possible SVN ways have disadvantages:
> >
> > 1-st way (server-side, global) may be useless when each team member has
> > its own stuffs to ignore. Obviously that letting each member ability
> > to edit/commit svn:ignore prop will lead to mess in repository soon.
>
> I don't know why you call this "server-side". The situation you
> describe here is exactly the functionality .cvsignore files provide.
>
> > 2-nd way (client-side, global) is useless because of global leads to
> > inconvenience: I should specify all ignores for all my repositories
> > in single config file. Besides of inconvenience it may be also
> > impossible to apply the same ignore rules for all repositories.
> >
> > .svnignore file support solves all disadvantages mentioned above.
>
> I'm not following this. Could you describe in one sentence an
> 'ignore' feature you get with CVS that you don't get with Subversion?
>
> An example would help a lot here.
>
> > I have tried to open enhancement issue about this topic
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2156
> > but the issue had been marked as invalid immediatelly. :(
>
> It was marked as invalid because we prefer to discuss issues here
> before filing them. See http://subversion.tigris.org/project_issues.html
> for why. It's nothing personal.
>
> -Karl
>
>
>
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