On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 07:38, Steve Cohen wrote:
> The svn book could use more examples on using svn:ignore.
>
> My first several use cases for this did not go smoothly. The book talks
> about patterns at several points but the syntax is not explained.
> For example, is the **/ notation used in places like Ant supported?
> What glob wildcards are supported. Etc. Here was my first use case:
>
> The Gimp tool creates .xvpics directories whenver it edits files. I'm
> not sure what they are but I don't want them version controlled. So my
> usecase is: Ignore anything in any directory named .xvpics and all its
> children, starting from the current directory and all including all its
> current children.
> What is the pattern?
I tried "svn propset svn:ignore .xvpics ." to set it on the current
directory - that seems to work. Another way to do it is to add it the
list of global-ignores in you ~/.subversion/config file. On Windows it
is in ApplicationData\subversion in the user profile directory.
>
> But beyond answering the question, the answer should hopefully make it
> into the book.
>
> Steve Cohen
>
>
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