Re: svn ignores

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Lane Roathe wrote:

> on Sun, Apr 26, 2009 James W. Walker may have said:
>
>> OK, Subversion experts, clue me in.  As you can see in the quesa-cvs
>> mailing list, I tried to set an svn:ignore property on the root
>> directory to make Subversion ignore .mode1v3 and .pbxuser files.  But
>> these files still show up in svn status.
>
> Not an svn expert, but I have found that you have to set it  
> recursively,
> and if anything is already in the repo it will not be ignored.

OK, thanks, I knew the second thing, but not the first.  Making  
recursive changes to the whole repository seems more adventurous than  
I'm ready for, so I'll make finer-grained ignores as the need arises.