Exclude Eclipse's hidden '.settings' directory from commits when using TortoiseSVN

Question

I'm using the TortoiseSVN client and Eclipse. When I attempt to commit an Eclipse project, TortoiseSVN displays a .settings directory in the file list and says that it is un-versioned. The `.settings' directory seems to be where Eclipse keeps all of its settings for a project.

Is there a way to exclude this directory so that it is completely ignored by TortoiseSVN for this and any other Eclipse projects?

Answer 1

Since you want to ignore this folder globally, you should use…a global ignore!

Take a look at the file

%APPDATA%\Subversion\config

and uncomment the global-ignores line and add .settings to it.

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Sample

Sample full path for the file config:

C:\Documents and Settings\pmn\Application Data\Subversion\config

Sample new content of the global-ignores line:

global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store .settings

Answer 2

You can exclude directories like this by right clicking on them in Windows and going to TortoiseSVN/"Delete and add to ignore list" and then specifying it in the sub-menu:

This is really easy to do, I have to do it quite often.