On May 19, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>
>
>> This is probably a stupid question but I haven't been able to get
>> it to
>> work. I want svn to ignore the 'Icon\015' files (contains some icon
>> stuff) on OS X but I can't figure out how do this ... I'm probably
>> making something wrong when adding it to svn:ignore.
>
> This is not a stupid question at all:-)
>
>
>> Can someone help me out and tell me how to do it?
>
> It can't be done, since svn:ignore can't contain newlines. Adding
> Icon?
> might do it, but it will ingore all files named Icon followed by
> exactly
> one character. That might be acceptable.
>
> The truth is that svn disallows newlines in filenames, so it is
> good that
> you don't actually *want* these in the repository:-)
True, but the trailing character for "Icon\r" files is a carriage
return, not a newline. What did you put in your svn:ignore file?
stephen
Received on Thu May 19 19:07:01 2005