Re: global-ignore versioned file

faxmodem@free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a versioned tree that looks like this:
>
> dir1/
> dir1/info
> dir1/history
> dir2/info
> dir2/history
> ...
>
> Now I want to ignore all "info" files. I therefore added the following to my
> .subversion/config:
>
> "global-ignores = info"
>
> However, svn status still reports the files as modified and commit commits
> them.
>
> What am I doing (foolishly) wrong?

Once a file is added to a repository, ignores no longer affect it. To
prevent them from being committed, delete the copy in the repository.