Re: Problems with propset svn:ignore

Hi all,

I have a question on similar lines.
My repository has been migrated to SVN. In the migration procees all the
.cvsignore files are also in SVN. I have found a script:

#! /bin/sh

# Scan the given directory (or current directory by default) recursively
and,

# for every .cvsignore file found, tell Subversion to ignore the presence in

# that directory of any files listed in the .cvsignore file.

# This stops Subversion from complaining about automatically generated files

# that have every right to be in the working copy, though not in the
repository.

# The .cvsignore files were inherited from the days libpqxx was kept in a
CVS

# repository, but they're also a lot more convenient than the way Subversion

# does this by itself.

DIR="$1"

if test -z "$DIR" ; then

DIR="."

fi

for i in `find "$DIR" -name .cvsignore` ; do

dir="`echo "$i" | sed -e 's|/\.cvsignore$||'`"

svn propset svn:ignore --non-interactive --file "$i" "$dir"

done
I am thinking to run this script on the svn environment. I expect that all
the files as listed by the .cvsignore file would be ignore in future by SVN.
But as Andy says it 'Once an item is versioned, Subversion will not ignore
it.', I doubt what I expect wil really happen. Can any one comment/add/help?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Benjamin Buch <benni.buch_at_gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Am 13.09.2008 um 12:50 schrieb Andy Levy:
>
> Once an item is versioned, Subversion will not ignore it.
>>
>> Your use case is so common it's in the FAQ.
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#ignore-commit
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -benjamin
>
>
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Received on 2008-09-13 14:56:50 CEST