Re: SVN offers svn:ignore property, but I also need some kind of .svnignore local file (or an extra unversioned version of svn:ignore)

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 03:35:46PM +0100, Thorsten Schöning wrote:
> Guten Tag Vitor Barata,
> am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012 um 14:54 schrieben Sie:
>
> > I
> > can't help but think that there should be an unversioned list of
> > ignored file patterns (.svnignore local file or svn:localignore
> > property or something like that) as well as the versioned svn:ignore
> > property.
>
> But there's none and unless you code this feature on your own you
> won't get it anytime soon, I guess. The only thing left is your build
> system and the already present configuration for the used Subversion
> client and TortoiseSVN.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Thorsten Schöning

Is editing the global-ignores setting in the Subversion configuration file,
as already suggested by Thorsten in an earlier post, not an option?

That's currently the only unversioned place where ignore settings can
be configured. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config

Can the build system output its files into a subdirectory with a known
name which can then be ignored?

It seems your use case is rather exceptional. I've rarely seen the need
to ignore arbitrary files with names that aren't known in advance.
However, it's clear that the current ignore system isn't well suited
for this case, so maybe we should extend Subversion in some way to
account for this.
Received on 2012-10-30 16:01:43 CET