How do I ignore a file/directory with a space in it with a (tortoise) SVN ignore pattern?

Question

I'm trying to add the directory with a space in it:

Static Debug

to my SVN ignore pattern.

However, spaces are used to separate different directories (so the above ignore pattern would be interpreted as two files to ignore -- Static and Debug)

I've tried adding

Static%20Debug

and

"Static Debug"

and

Static\ Debug

with no luck

And apparently I can't ignore by regular expression.

Anyone have any idea?

Answer 1

I found this documentation in the tortoise manual. According to it

[...]

Matches any one of the characters enclosed in the square brackets. Within the brackets, a pair of characters separated by “-” matches any character lexically between the two. For example [AGm-p] matches any one of A, G, m, n, o or p.

So I can simply do

Static[ ]Debug 

which works

Ok that actually DOESN'T WORK for whitespace in my version of Tortoise

What works is using

?

Matches any single character.

which lets me do

Static?Debug

which unfortunately also matches stuff like StaticADebug. But this is good enough to do the trick.

Answer 2

Related to Doug T.'s Answer, I played around with this a bit.

Instead of using ?, you can specify an exclusion range with [] by putting a ^ at the front.

ignore[^A-Za-z0-9]this

If I have an "ignore this" and a "ignore0this", the one with the space will be ignored, but not the one with the 0.