Re: SVN ignore not working

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Rob Brandt <bronto_at_csd-bes.net> wrote:

> I am having a terrible time getting ignore to work.
>
> On my client, I am using Eclipse SVNKit 1.6.15, and on my Ubuntu server I
> have 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1.3.
>
> I have 2 folders that I need to ignore, they are in my root dir and are
> userdata and ztemp. I set that in Eclipse and it works as expected.
> dir-prop-base is
> -----------------------
> K 10
> svn:ignore
> V 16
> userdata
>
> ztemp
>
> END
> ----------------------
>
> On the server I checked out the project and it worked. There weren't
> copies of userdata and ztemp included (as expected). However when I
> created local copies of these folders and tried to commit, I got the error
>
> svn: '/home/project/public_html/**userdata' is not a working copy
>

This error has nothing to do with ignore pattern, it's simple error you
trying to commit from a directory which is not part of working copy.

>
> I checked the svn files there too and
> dir-prop-base is
> -----------------------
> K 10
> svn:ignore
> V 16
> userdata
>
> ztemp
>
> END
> ----------------------
>
> Why isn't the server ignoring this folder?

I think you have misunderstood the ignore, it has nothing to do with
server, it's just helps client to not add the ignored files to the commit
by default.

>
>
> Rob
>

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