Re: global ignores

Please keep users@ involved.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:07 PM, John Maher <JohnM_at_rotair.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mark. Could you be a little more specific? Like look at what
> and where. I’ve been looking at all kinds of stuff and reading many, many
> posts but nothing is clear.
>

I do not have any specific suggestion, just that if you see a ? then that
means the file should be ignorable if the settings are right.

>
>
> For example, what is a comment in the config file. Many places it talks
> about comments but nowhere does it explain what a comment is. I see lines
> starting with # and lines starting with ###. Are all of those comments or
> just the ###? It is clear that the lines with ### are comments but is
> subversion reading the lines with # or are they comments also?
>

Any line that starts with # is a comment.

On Windows, open the Run dialog and enter %APPDATA%\Subversion and press
ENTER. Then edit the file named "config" with a text editor. The default
value for this option is:

[miscellany]
### Set global-ignores to a set of whitespace-delimited globs
### which Subversion will ignore in its 'status' output, and
### while importing or adding files and directories.
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store

Make sure your text editor does not change the filename or save it with a
file extension added. If you are using TortoiseSVN, I recall their
Settings dialog also provides access to this.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/