Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2006, at 16:12, Simon Whittaker wrote:
>
>> I would like to ignore a whole directory from any changes made by the
>> developers, we are using tortoisesvn on the checkout end and from
>> what I understood you could use the properties and svn:ignore to
>> ensure that the directory was left out. I have set svn:ignore to *
>> and set recursive but the changed files are still appearing when I
>> commit. I think I am probably misunderstanding the process here but
>> would appreciate any guidance.
>
> Sounds correct to me. If you have a directory "foo" and you want it to
> be in the repository, but empty, such that any files a developer has
> locally in "foo" do not get shown as unversioned when using svn
> status, then this is the way to go.
>
> svn propset svn:ignore '*' foo
> svn commit -m "Ignoring the contents of 'foo'."
Perfect - thanks to all that answered
simon
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