Re: svn:ignore with recursive and non-recursive patterns

On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:29, Steve Cohen wrote:

> I have a need to define a number of svn:ignore patterns in my project.
>
> Some are specific directories somewhere in my project tree. Others are particular file types created by a build process such as *.o which may be found in any number of directories.
>
> However, the svn propset command only allows the recursive -R switch to be applied to the entire set of values for the svn:ignore property. Whereas what is needed is to be able to apply the recursive switch to the VALUE(e.g. *.o), not the KEY (e.g. svn:ignore). Is there any way of achieving this? There doesn't appear to be one. Yet without it, svn:ignore is useless, or at least too cumbersome to be used well.

svn:ignore is not useless; it works fine, but doesn't have the feature you're looking for.

However, you can set "*.o" in your global-ignores in your Subversion config file; in fact it should already be there unless you've changed it.
Received on 2010-12-01 19:46:29 CET