Comments on: Recursively ignoring multiple file patterns in subversion

By: r00t

r00t — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:43:48 +0000

note that you can also just pass a newline-separated string directly on the command line, no need for any temporary files.
there are multiple ways to do this, for example you can just type in literal newlines inside quotes (but that is a bit confusing to edit):

1 2	svn propset svn:ignore '.log .tmp' DIR

or you can use (ba?)sh’s $” construct to expand a \n to a newline:

1	svn propset svn:ignore $'.log\n.tmp' DIR

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:48:35 +0000

Thanks Daan! I’ve added your approach into the post.

By: Daan van Berkel

Daan van Berkel — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:22:23 +0000

A useful command to alter the a property, e.g. svn:ignore, is

1	svn propedit svn:ignore MYDIR

This opens an editor which allows you to edit the contents of the property.

By: katieg

katieg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:36:04 +0000

I use to love subversion, but then a year ago my company switched everything over to AccuRev, a scm tool that's known for managing the software development process. I'm sure it wasn't cheap. The only problem was that were weren't able to transfer our history in SVN to AccuRev, but our performance and release quality has really improved, and AccuRev requires a lot less administration than than and Subversion did. But I still use subversion for my own small projects at home.

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:15:42 +0000

Yeah, that giant book is stuffed with things I don’t need, and lacking in succinct descriptions of what I do. Glad this helped though!

By: Kyle Banker

Kyle Banker — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:45:53 +0000

It’s incredible that neither the official SVN Book nor the Pragmatic Version Control book discuss this situation. Goes to show just how clunky ignoring files in svn is.

Anyway, excellent tip. Thanks so much!