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AW: Preventing local modified files from beeing comitted(svn:ignore)

From: Felix Gilcher <gilcher_at_exozet.com>
Date: 2006-11-02 11:03:27 CET

Reinhard Brandstaedter <mailto:Reinhard.Brandstaedter@jku.at> schrieb am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 10:53:

> Hi,
>
> I've changed my CVS users to Subversion :-) but there is quite a few
> things these users still want to do as they are used to it from CVS.
>
> One thing is working with svn:ignore or CVSIGNORE.
> Some of them were used to preventing changes on files being comitted
> to the repository by adding those files to cvsignore. This also
> worked with
> files that already were under version control.
> So they try to add versioned files they don't want to be comitted to
> svn:ignore (with their eclipse IDE SVN plugin) which doesn't work.
>
> Is there a way to mark a file as local changes only so that
> this file's
> changes will not be comitted?
>

no. The standard solution is to check in a template with a different filename and have your users copy it to the real filename which is not under version control and on the ignore list. You might want to provide a "post-checkout sript" to your users that makes this task easier.

> Reinhard
>
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regards

felix

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