Daniele Demichelis » subversion http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:14:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get rid of folder that should not be versioned http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/2009/12/get-rid-of-folder-that-should-not-be-versioned/ http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/2009/12/get-rid-of-folder-that-should-not-be-versioned/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:01:55 +0000 danidemi http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/?p=88 If you work with subversion, for sure you had the problem to tell to subversion to ignore a folder inside your working copy. This happens for example if your IDE builds the sources in a folder inside your working copy. From the very first commit you’ll start noticing that subversion wants to add that “build” [...]]]> If you work with subversion, for sure you had the problem to tell to subversion to ignore a folder inside your working copy. This happens for example if your IDE builds the sources in a folder inside your working copy. From the very first commit you’ll start noticing that subversion wants to add that “build” folder to your repository. But, obviously, this is not a good practice.

So you can tell subversion to ignore a folder. Just move in the folder that contains the folder you want to be ignored by subversion and type the following command.

svn propset svn:ignore <dir_you_want_to_be_ignored> .

The “dot” at the end is important! It means you’re specifying which folders of the current folder you want to be ignored.

Please note that <dir_you_want_to_be_ignored> should be written without trailing slashes. So for example if you want the build directory not to be managed by subversion, type…

svn propset svn:ignore build .

And not…

svn propset svn:ignore build/ .

This is a quick tip. I always forget how to do it, so I wrote that little note.

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