What should I configure SVN to ignore in my Delphi projects?

Question

What files should I tell Tortoise SVN to ignore when committing to a repository?

In particular I am interested in practical information such as whether to include such files as *.dproj.2007 etc that seem to appear but may not be needed.

Answer 1

I use these in D2007, which seem to still work fine in XE and XE2:

*.dcu *.~* *.ddp *.exe *.map *.bak *.obj *.dsk  *.err *.log *.tmp *.identcache *.tvsconfig  __history *.todo  ModelSupport* *.local 

I don't include ModelSupport because I don't use the IDE's modeling stuff, so there's no point in versioning it if it's created by mistake. I also don't version anything in the __history folder, as that's just temporary versioning between checkins; once the checkin to SVN is made, it's not necessary any longer.

(I disagree with Chris about *.res, BTW, especially when it comes to XE2. Resource files can be created now using Project|Resources and Images, and those go directly into a resource file. Since the resource\image may be actually coming from somewhere else not in the current folder, and the image file might accidentally not be checked in, I keep the .res file now. I also keep the project file; it has all the paths and compiler options set. If something happens where that needs to change, it's easy to just remove the project file and let the IDE recreate it as needed.)