Re: config file with cygwin

Steve Kunkee wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> You mention that global-ignores is only for svn-status. That does appear to be the case, so it appears that the document is incorrect. I'll file a bug report.
>
> The document (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html), chapter 7, Configuration Options, Config, global-ignores, says that svn add and svn import also look at global-ignores. The book is for 1.2, and I have 1.2.3, so they should match.
>

Steve, you don't have to file a bug report. Subversion works as
expected.

Look at this:

~/work
$ mkdir new

~/work
$ touch new/a.c

~/work
$ touch new/a.o

~/work
$ svn st
? new

~/work
$ svn add new
A new
A new/a.c

Subversion ignores the file a.o as all .o files should be ignored by
the global-ignores property.

And now look at this:

~/work
$ touch a.c

~/work
$ touch a.o

~/work
$ svn st
? a.c

~/work
$ svn add *
A a.c
A a.o

Now the .o file is also added. But that's not a bug in Subversion but
has to do with shell expansion. The '*' is expanded by the shell so
Subversion actually gets 'svn add a.c a.o' and so you have what I
already described: You can explicitly add files which are to be ignored.

Hope that makes it clearer.
And please forgive me for writing it a bit unclear last time.

Mathias

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Received on Fri Mar 31 10:29:53 2006