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Subclipse svn:ignore

You can't svn:ignore a file that is already commited to repository.

So you must:

  1. Delete the file from the repository.
  2. Update your project (the working copy) to the head revision.
  3. Recreate the file in Eclipse.
  4. Set svn:ignore on the file via Team->Add to svn:ignore.
  5. Restart eclipse to reflect changes.

Good luck!


I was able to do this using TortoiseSVN directly from Windows explorer:

Right click on file to ignore->TortiseSVN->Delete and add to ignore list

I had to close then re-open the project in Eclipse, job done :)


It seems Subclipse only allows you to add a top-level folder to ignore list and not any sub folders under it. Not sure why it works this way. However, I found out by trial and error that if you directly add a sub-folder to version control, then it will allow you to add another folder at the same level to the ignore list.

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For example, refer fig above, when I wanted to ignore the webapp folder without adding src, subclipse was not allowing me to do so. But when I added the java folder to version control, the "add to svn:ignore..." was enabled for webapp.


If you are trying to share a project in SVN with Eclipse for the first time, you might want to avoid certain files to be commited. In order to do so, go to Preferences->Team->Ignored Resources. In this screen you just need to add a pattern to ignore the kind of files you don't want to commit.

Eclipse preferences


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