SVN ignore like .gitignore

Question

In Git, if I have a project with lots of projects inside, let's suppose, a lot of Java projects, I can just create a .gitignore file in the root and it will "be respected" in the entire repository.

How can I do this for an SVN project?

For example, how can I make an "svn ignore" setup (via cmd line) for a .gitignore like the following?

*.class *.jar *.war *.ear target/ .classpath .settings/ .project .metadata bin/ 

The most important part of the question: How can I make it work to new folders inside the root? Example:

I ran svn propset svn:ignore "*.class" . -R in my root and commit. Ok:

root - folder1/ -- *.class (ignored) -- other files (ok) - folder2/ -- *.class (ignored) -- other files (ok) 

Now, I create folder 3. The previous svn:ignore settings will not apply, right? Is there a way to make it so?

Answer 1

You can use svn:ignore. You generally need to tell SVN to apply special properties to the files:

svn propset svn:ignore "*.jpg" . 

(Note the dot at the end of the command.)

For multiple files you can add a newline character.

Type exactly like here with line breaks:

svn propset svn:ignore "file1 file2 file3" dir1 

Check that the files are ignored:

svn status --no-ignore 

Then commit the code.

And yes, many duplicate questions are already available.

You can refer my favorite svn cheatguide.

You can create a file, svn-ignore.txt, with your ignored files and directories:

*.class *.jar *.war *.ear  target/ .classpath .settings/ .project .metadata  bin/ 

Now try the following:

svn propset svn:ignore -RF /root/svn-ignore.txt . [dot for current dir] 

-R is for recursive.

Answer 2

This is what I am doing to emulate .svnignore.

Create a wrapper for svn called ~/bin/svn

#!/bin/bash case "$1" in commit|status|apply-ignore)     if test -f .svnignore ; then         echo "Apply .svnignore: $(/usr/bin/svn propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore .)"     fi     ;; esac case "$1" in apply-ignore) ;; *) exec /usr/bin/svn "$@" ;; esac 

Then add ~/bin to your path before /usr/bin

PATH=~/bin:$PATH ; export PATH 

It applies .svnignore on commit and status commands, and can also manually apply using svn apply-ignore.