I 'sort' of have this working...not that I understand what I am doing and it's not altogether obvious from the documentation but my problems are more conceptual usage than practical usage so I will keep on keeping on but apparently, svn propset svn:ignore log/* log does somewhat what I want (but they still show up in svn status which may be as a result of the fact that they exist there because they came from a checkout). I'm too new at this svn thing to know Craig On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:14 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I cannot progress here - newbie on svn > > $ svn propedit svn:ignore log > Set new value for property 'svn:ignore' on 'log' > > $ svn proplist log > Properties on 'log': > svn:ignore > > $ svn status > M app/controllers/placements_controller.rb > M app/views/layouts/placements.rhtml > M log > M log/development.log > M config > M config/database.yml > M config/environment.rb > M config/environments > > stuff in log still shows up and it's clear from svnbook documentation > that if it was ignored, it wouldn't show up. > > How do get it to 'ignore' or remove items from consideration? > > Craig >
