Re: svn add ignores the ignore patterns

On Sep 23, 2005, at 09:46, Knut Wannheden wrote:

> I just found out that the svn add command will ignore the ignore
> patterns (both global-ignores config and the svn:ignore property) for
> paths explicitly passed as parameters to it. [...]

> I assume this is the intended behaviour. But the reason I'm bringing
> this up is that this is not mentioned anywhere in the SVN book. Should
> I report this as a documentation enhancement request to the issue
> tracker?

It is the intended behavior. I agree the documentation is misleading,
in particular the last paragraph in this section:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/
svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.ignore

"The list of patterns to ignore is also used by svn add and svn
import. Both of these operations involve asking Subversion to begin
managing some set of files and directories. Rather than force the
user to pick and choose which files in a tree she wishes to start
versioning, Subversion uses the ignore patterns to determine which
files should not be swept into the version control system as part of
a larger recursive addition or import operation."

It should say that svn add only uses the ignore list with respect to
the contents of a directory you're adding. But when you specify a
target to svn add, that target is added, even if it is in the ignore
list.

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Received on Fri Sep 23 12:30:21 2005