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Re: properties 'svn:ignore' : how to ignore directories ?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2007-11-04 19:12:16 CET

Bruno Costacurta <brucosta@pt.lu> writes:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 00:42, Andy Levy wrote:
>> On 11/2/07, Bruno Costacurta <brucosta@pt.lu> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I would like to ignore some subdirectories within a project root.
>> > Which syntax should I use ?
>> > Should the subdirectories be 'svn add' before being 'svn:ignore' ?
>> >
>> > Thanks for samples and syntax clarifications.
>>
>> Ignore directories with the same syntax as files.
>>
>> If you svn add a directory, it can't be ignored.
>
> Sorry, but I do not agree with you.
> Indeed after reading more closely the Subversion doc it seems that only
> elements svn imported / added into svn can be svn:ignore.

Bruce, Andy is right. You should just do some experiments, now that
you've read the docs.

If you mean that only a versioned directory can have the "svn:ignore"
property set on it, that's correct. But that property doesn't cause
the directory on which it is set to be ignored! Rather, it causes
objects *in* that directory to be ignored, if they are not versioned
themselves and if they match a pattern in the ignore list (which is
the value of the aforementioned property).

-Karl

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