Ignoring all files in a directory

Hello, I'm using (just started) subversion 1.6.2 under Windows. I have a
directory "somedir" that is under version control but I want to ignore
all files in it (and there's no telling beforehand the names of the
files that may appear in that directory).
I tried this: In my working copy I put two files in somedir: foo.txt and
blah.java (and I want these ignored).
$ svn status reveals:
? somedir\foo.txt
? somedir\blah.java

Ok, that's expected. Now let's try and ignore everything in somedir, I
tried this:
$ cd somedir/
$ svn propset svn:ignore * .
svn: warning: 'foo.txt' is not under version control
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

Hmm, did it ignore somedir/blah.java but not somedir/foo.txt? Let's check:
$ svn propget svn:ignore somedir
blah.java

Hmm, somedir/blah.java seems to be ignored but not somedir/foo.txt?

What did I do wrong? How should I write the propset command? Also, I
would like to know how I can do this without using propedit. :)

- EL

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Received on 2009-05-20 16:10:27 CEST