Ignoring files with global-ignores or svn:ignore

Daniele Forsi dforsi at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 17:56:03 CET 2007


There are some files that could be ignored globally (at least: *.a
*.gdb .sgbuilt_user)

example:
$ svn status
[...]
?      user/wireless_tools/.sgbuilt_user
?      user/wireless_tools/iwconfig.gdb
?      user/wireless_tools/libiw.a
[...]

I read about "global-ignores" here
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config

and about "svn:ignore" here
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.ignore

IIUIC "global-ignores" is valid server wide (and set in the config
file) while "svn:ignore" is valid for a directory and its
subdirectories (and set with "svn propset").

Comments?

-- 
Ciao,
Daniele



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