Folders to ignore on subversion commit

Question

Which folders may I not commit to subversion server?

I'm talking about an standard asp.net web application in Visual Studio 2.008. I think the bin folder because it's files are regenerated, is there any other?

Answer 1

We put this string as the svn:ignore property on all our projects:

*.pdb  
*.exe  
*.dll  
debug/*  
release/*  
*.user  
*.suo  
obj/*  
bin/*  
obj  
bin  
VSMacros80  

Answer 2

For any C# project I would recommend to ignore the following files/directories:

Visual Studio files to ignore

• *.pdb — Files that hold states information when debugging.
• *.exe — Executable binaries.
• *.dll — Library binaries.
• debug/* — Folder used by Visual Studio to store a lot of debugging information
• release/* — Folder used by Visual Studio to store binary releases.
• *.user — Configuration per user.
• *.suo — Options settings per user stored in binary format.
• obj — Folder used by Visual Studio to store binary objects used while debugging.
• bin — Folder used by Visual Studio to store compiled objects.
• VSMacros80 — Folder used by Visual Studio to store macros.

Other files to ignore

• packages — Folder used for NuGet references.
• *.log — In case of having logs written in the source folder (this should not happen).

Note: Remember to add these pattern to be ignored recursively.

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Extra (copy-n-paste)

*.pdb  
*.exe  
*.dll  
debug/*  
release/*  
*.user  
*.suo
obj  
bin  
VSMacros80
packages
*.log