Re: Ignoring all files in a directory

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Eric Lilja wrote:
> Hello again, Konstantin!
>
> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> Hm. I expected this to work properly, but it added quotes to the value.
>>
>> You can write value of the property to a file, and use
>> $ svn propset svn:ignore --file filename .
>
> Yes, this method does indeed work. Any ideas why '*' didn't work,
> because it sounds like it should?

Eric,

are you perhaps on Windows, using CMD.EXE and a native Subversion
command line client?

The most concise command sequence I could come up with is this:

C:\wc\trial> echo * | svn ps svn:ignore -F - .

On Windows, wildcard expansion of parameters is _not_ performed by the
shell (CMD.EXE), but the called program, depending on the low-level
runtime library it is linked to.

The example below illustrates this using CMD, Cygwin's svn.exe and
VisualSVN Server's svn.exe (linked to MS C runtime) on Vista. Note the
different behaviour of the C runtimes.

C:\wc\trial> dir /b
bar
foo

C:\trial> echo *
*

C:\wc\trial> svn ps svn:ignore * .
svn: Cannot set 'svn:ignore' on a file ('bar')

C:\wc\trial> svn ps svn:ignore "*" .
svn: Cannot set 'svn:ignore' on a file ('bar')

C:\wc\trial> svn ps svn:ignore '*' .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

C:\wc\trial> svn pg svn:ignore
'*'

C:\wc\trial> echo * | svn ps svn:ignore -F - .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

C:\wc\trial> svn pg svn:ignore .
*

C:\wc\trial> \cygwin\bin\svn ps svn:ignore * .
svn: Cannot set 'svn:ignore' on a file ('foo')

C:\wc\trial> \cygwin\bin\svn ps svn:ignore "*" .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

C:\wc\trial> \cygwin\bin\svn pg svn:ignore
*

C:\wc\trial> \cygwin\bin\svn ps svn:ignore '*' .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

C:\wc\trial> \cygwin\bin\svn pg svn:ignore
*

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