I don't want any directory named build or dist to go into my SVN no matter how deep in the tree it is.
Is this possible? In git I just put
build
dist
in my .gitignore at the root and it recursively ignores. How do I do this with svn? Please don't tell me to do a propset on every parent dir...
It is possible to ignore build and dist dirs by removing the directories from version control. The trick is to use the --keep-local option to leave the directory in the working copy. For example:
svn rm dist --keep-local
svn ci -m'removed build directory from version control'
The directory will no longer be tracked by subversion but it will still be there in your working copy to hold compiler output, etc.
cheers, joe
svn propset --recursive svn:ignore svn_ignore_rules .
where svn_ignore_rules is a file containing the ignore rules -- one per line
Of course you have to re-run it every time you add a new directory to your repo
svn_ignore_rules can also be considered to be checked into the repo, to be re-useable by other users having write access to the repo
Since there seems to be no solution for this probably common problem, i would like to share our solution. As the others already made clear, you can either use the svn:ignore property, this applies to a single directory (and therefore not for new ones), or you use global-ignores which applies to a single user (but doesn't belong to the repository).
To make life a bit easier i created a reg file named Settings.Svn.reg and added it to the root of the repository. Now everybody can doublecklick this regfile once, and has the settings done.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config\miscellany]
"global-ignores"="obj *.suo *.bak *.pdb *.user *.Cache*"
I would really appreciate a solution within the SVN repository, so if somebody knows, would you care to share it?