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The svn:ignore property is a good way to tell Subversion to ignore files that are likely to be present in every user's working copy of that directory, such as compiler output or—to use an example more appropriate to this book—the HTML, PDF, or PostScript files generated as the result of a conversion of some source ...
You can ignore a file or directory like . gitignore. Just create a text file of list of directories/files you want to ignore and run the code below: svn propset svn:ignore -F ignorelist.
Description. Used for dividing files in a working copy into a changelist (logical named grouping) in order to allow users to easily work on multiple file collections within a single working copy.
So I have some files I want to ignore in a subversion repository, but I don't want my ignore patterns for this to be propagated to the repository.
In other words, I added some private files in my checkout that I want to keep, but they only exist for me and wouldn't make sense to be ignored for everyone, so if I use the svn:ignore, this will apply on the directory, and I either have to check that in (which I don't want to do), or see that this directory was modified every time I do an svn status.
So, ideally I would like something like a .svnignore file which I could then mark to ignore itself as well as some other files (I think this is a possibility in git for example, using a .gitignore file, or whatever the name is).
I'm guessing it might work to ignore the whole directory (maybe), but then I suspect I won't see any new files in that directory, which would also not be desirable.
So does anybody know a way to do this in subversion?
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