On Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:42 PM -0700 Craig White
<craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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).
You really want to ask this on the Subversion users list, where you'll find
a ton of svn experts.
<http://subversion.tigris.org/>
Follow the links to the mailing lists and subscribe to the users list.
You'll also find the list carried on http://gmane.org if you want to read
it as a newsgroup.
The problem you're seeing is because the value of svn:ignore is a list of
file globs (wildcard expressions like you'd type on the command line). If
you want to match everything in the directory, use '*'. The patterns are
not recursive and don't apply to subdirectories.
So you want:
svn propset svn:ignore '*' log
Usually I want a specific set of files in the directory ignored, so I make
a text file with a list of names, one per line, and set the property for
that directory to that list:
svn propset svn:ignore -F /tmp/files-to-ignore .
