Re: output of SVN status, question mark lines

Hi Nick,

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM, nick downing
<nicholas_downing_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Just a minor question. When I do svn status I get output such as this:
> ? ad
> ? bd
> ? a0
> ? a1
> ? b0
> ? b1
> which are temporary files and not under version control.

Right, that's what the question mark means. (Well, it doesn't mean
temporary, but it does mean not-under-version-control.)

> Using svn propedit
> svn:ignore . I made an exclusion list:
> a0 a1 ad b0 b1 bd
> yet it doesn't seem to have any effect.

If you did it exactly that way, I can imagine it didn't: each line
should hold a separate file (pattern) like this:

a?
b0
b1
bd

> For some reason .o files don't seem
> to be listed but other files are. Maybe someone has put .o in a global
> exclusion list when setting up svn, I'm not sure.

Exactly. See your Subversion configuration files and search for
"global ignores". There are more items in the list by default, but it
can be customized.

> How can I locally suppress specific files in a directory?

Using the svn:ignore property on the containing directory: you were on
the right track!

HTH,

Erik.
Received on 2009-01-13 14:01:47 CET