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FreakShow
FreakShow

Reputation: 127

Subclipse wants to commit an folder conaining an svn:ignore file

I have a project with a subfolder Resources. In this folder there is a file I added to SVN:ignore.

Now there aren't any other changes compared with the latest respository revision. But in eclipse's synchronzite view, this folder is still beeing displayed. No other files are displayed under it, because nothing changed.

I don't want to commit those SVN:ignore metadata, because its user specific. I don't want to ignore the folder's contents, because there are regular files which has to be version controlled.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2308

Answers (3)

Wim Coenen
Wim Coenen

Reputation: 66783

Is it because SVN metadata changed?

Yes, you modified the svn:ignore property of the Resources folder.

Do I have to commit the metadata into the repository?

Yes, svn:ignore properties are stored in the repository. They are shared between all SVN users.

Is there a way, to get this folder out of the synchronize view, without commiting metadata? I don't want to commit those SVN:ignore metadata, because its user specific.

Yes. You can use global-ignores in your SVN configuration file, instead of the svn:ignore property. From the section Runtime Configuration Area in the SVN book:

global-ignores

When running the svn status command, Subversion lists unversioned files and directories along with the versioned ones, annotating them with a ? character (see the section called “See an overview of your changes”). Sometimes it can be annoying to see uninteresting, unversioned items—for example, object files that result from a program's compilation—in this display. The global-ignores option is a list of whitespace-delimited globs that describe the names of files and directories that Subversion should not display unless they are versioned. The default value is *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store.

Upvotes: 1

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 2831

You must commit svn:ignore when it should be work. There is no other way I think. Because all project metadata are under version control!

Upvotes: 0

Pedro Loureiro
Pedro Loureiro

Reputation: 11514

maybe it is trying to add the .ignore file itself? (It might have created that file to list ignored files.) Check for any other hidden files too.

if you want, you can add the whole folder to the ignore list

EDIT

Svn does not create a ignore file list, but maybe it is committing the parent folder or there is some hidden file inside that folder

Upvotes: 0

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