Re: svn:ignore

On May 30, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>
> > The book says that "certain Subversion operations will ignore"
> > patterns on svn:ignore properties.
>
> The book says exactly which commands it affects: status, add, import.

I didn't see that in the `add' and `import' references, and also not
in the `svn:ignore' section -- am I looking in the wrong place?

> > If so, is it documented somewhere?
>
> Is what documented? I don't understand. You can tell subversion to
> ignore an entire unversioned directory as well, if that's what
> you're asking. Just list the directory itself in its parent's
> svn:ignore property.

What I didn't realize, and couldn't find any docs for, is the fact
that no matter what you put in svn:ignore, it will not have any bad
effects on existing versioned files and future versioned stuff. (It
seems like a good behavior, and it seemed like this is the way svn
works -- I just couldn't find it documented explicitly.)

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