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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 19090

How to get SVN to ignore a particular directory included in my svn:ignore file?

I’m using Mac 10.9.5 with SVN on the command line. From within my src/main/webapp/WEB-INF directory, I execute

svn propedit svn:ignore .

in which the file has two lines …

classes
 lib

However, when I run “svn status”, it reports “?” for all the JAR files in my lib folder, for example below are some of the files it reports …

?       lib/xercesImpl-2.8.0.jar
?       lib/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar
?       lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar
?       lib/xom-1.2.5.jar

I know none of these files is under version control because when I run “svn del” on the lib directory, I get this …

Daves-MacBook-Pro:WEB-INF davea$ svn del lib
svn: E200005: Use --force to override this restriction (local modifications may be lost)
svn: E200005: '/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/sbadmin/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/antisamy-1.5.3.jar' is not under version control

Does anyone know how to get SVN to ignore files in my lib directory, or barring that, have it ignore my entire lib directory?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 589

Answers (2)

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30662

If you want to ignore contents of classes/lib directory, then set svn:ignore property on classes to lib.

For example, use svn propset command like this: svn propset svn:ignore classes lib. As far as I recall, svn propedit won't work unless you specify default text editor in Subversion's runtime configuration area.

You should also be able to set svn:ignore property on lib to * and it will leave the directory itself versioned, but not items under it. However, I guess that the first approach is better.

Remember to read SVNBook because this is RTFM topic, actually:

When found on a versioned directory, the svn:ignore property is expected to contain a list of newline-delimited file patterns that Subversion should use to determine ignorable objects in that same directory.

Upvotes: 1

Jon Weers
Jon Weers

Reputation: 1631

You've got the right idea. Make sure there are no spaces in front of "lib" in the ignore list. Also, after saving the edit, you can do an svn up . to pull the latest and force it to refresh the status list.

If you're trying to ignore classes/lib then do an svn propedit svn:ignore classes and set it to "lib".

Upvotes: 0

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