Re: Ignore file/directory with name begin with '!'

On Nov 25, 2009, at 00:24, Steven Woody wrote:

> We have a directory !Build\ in the project tree. How can I set
> svn:ignore property to ignore the whole directory? It seem there is
> no way to specify the name in the file pattern list.

What have you tried? It seems to work fine for me with Subversion 1.6.5:

$ mkdir '!Build'
$ svn st
? !Build
$ svn propset svn:ignore '!Build' .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'
$ svn st
 M .
$

Or was the backslash also part of the directory name? I didn't test that.

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Received on 2009-11-25 10:43:22 CET