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Andrew Seaford
Andrew Seaford

Reputation: 644

Add .vs folder to the global ignore list in Tortoise SVN

Visual Studio 2015 is automatically creating a folder called ".vs" within my solution folder. I do not want to add this folder to source control and therefore would like to add the folder ".vs" to the Tortoise SVN global ignore list.

I have tried adding .vs to the ignore list but it did not ignore the folder. I assume adding .vs ignored all files with the extension .vs. How can I ignore the folder .vs?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3881

Answers (2)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 64

The question asked to use Tortoise SVN and 'without adding this folder to source control' This answer is tailored to the Tortoise GUI.

Right click on a svn folder, click Tortoise settings, and then in the General settings you can enter in the global ignore pattern GUI field.

Use regular expression square brackets to start a folder with a "." (dot)

[.]vs

Upvotes: 3

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30662

You did something wrong because setting svn:ignore to .vs at the solution level will ignore the directory and its contents. Note that svn:ignore ignores unversioned items only so if the .vs directory has been already added to the repository then you have to remove it first.

Moreover, you should use Subversion integration plug-in such as VisualSVN or AnkhSVN with Visual Studio. I don't know about AnkhSVN but VisualSVN configures to ignore .vs by default.

Upvotes: 3

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