Re: Best way to "un-version control" a file?

On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> But, I did not think until now that I should have excluded files such
> as core files and logs and autoconf's cache from version controls. I
> now know how to a global ignore and a ignore foe one directory but how
> to remove these files from version control once they are already
> there. Is "svn rm" the best why? But that will remove them from
> the working directory too. I don't want that.

svn rm --keep-local filename

> Next is these a way to make the ignore property for a directory apply
> to all sub dirs recursively. The next project I want to move to svn
> is much larger and has many nested directories

svn propset --recursive svn:ignore ignorepattern .

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