so after reading lots of svn book and emails i see that svn:ignore properties are _not_ recursive. this saddens me as i want to ignore:

images/0/0/*.jpg
images/0/1/*.jpg
..
images/9/9/*.jpg

but i sure don't want to add that property 100 times. does anyone know of some way to get around this?

11/16/2007 1:13:18 AM

small script to do it?

11/16/2007 1:32:39 AM

i read one post where a guy said you could do this:

svn propedit svn:ignore .
and then add lines relative to .

but he was a fucking liar! it didn't work at all.

i really don't want to write a script that messes with my svn settings because that is just scary. however, i did find --global-ignores but have yet to get it to take effect.

so... still looking.

11/16/2007 1:45:29 AM

alright, so i figured out a solution that works for me but maybe not for everyone. anyway, here it is in case anyone needs this later.

in ~/.subversion/config there is a section called [miscellany] which has a line called --global-ignores that you can set like so:

--global-ignores = *.jpg *.png *.gif

works great!

11/16/2007 2:09:36 AM

what subversion shell are u using?

11/16/2007 12:20:52 PM

i'm not using one, just svn commands. the main reason is because all the work i do is for websites and is on a remote server. sure, i could check out the files to my machine but that doesn't do any good.

it would be nice to have subclipse or even just tortoise instead of doing the command line stuff, but honestly most of the time i am writing code in vim anyway. i'm sure there are better ways but i just haven't had time / don't know enough about it to look for them.

11/17/2007 12:39:59 AM