Re: Telling SVN to ignore Changes to a file

Don't have those files stored in source control using those filenames.
Store a version of the file using a slightly different filename, such as
web.config.default. When you check out a working copy, copy
web.config.default to web.config. Now you can change web.config as much
as you like and it will never be flagged as modified for commit because
it is not under source control.

-- 
Sly
Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> We've got several files in our web application (web.config and 
> settings.xml in our case, in Java it would be a .properties file) that 
> we need to change the contents of based on the local machine we're 
> installed on. For example, one of the things in settings.xml is the 
> path on the local machine to store attachments uploaded through the 
> application.
>  
> I'm looking for a way to tell svn that changes to a particular file 
> aren't to be committed when I do my commits. This could be an svn 
> thing, or a TortoiseSVN thing since that's out interface.
>  
> snv:ignore doesn't seem to accomplish this. I'm thinking of something 
> along the lines of an svn:ignore-content-changed type flag which would 
> tell svn to ignore this file and not commit it if the content changed. 
> If a property changed then commit the property change. The result 
> would be if we did ever want to commit a change, we'd remove the flag, 
> make the change, and add back the flag.
>  
> Am I missing something obvious? Any suggestions?
>  
> -Walden
>  
> -- 
> Walden H Leverich III
> Tech Software
> (516) 627-3800 x3051
> WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
> http://www.TechSoftInc.com <blocked::blocked::http://www.techsoftinc.com/>
>
> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>  
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Sly
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