Comments on: svn:ignore and svn:keywords

By: psj

psj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:16:26 +0000

Cool! Some of the directories in my svn tree aren’t Python source dirs, and so I just wanted to set those ones to ignore pyc files. On Linux (running bash), this did the trick: set .svnignore in . as mentioned above, then

find . -name ‘*.pyc’ -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq | xargs svn propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore

There’s a good chance this would work on Windows using Cygwin as well.

Hope this is useful to someone.

– psj

By: Gilles

Gilles — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:12:13 +0000

The problem with this approach is that you’ll have to manually reset the svn:ignore property if you later happen to create a new directory in your project tree.
Another solution is to set the global-ignores parameter in the global config file :

global-ignores = *.pyc

This parameters is global, which means cross-project which might be a problem in some cases. Anyway, this approach seems fine at least for *.pyc since such files are usually not versionned.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:59:09 +0000

How does this work for other clients using the same repository? Does each client have to do this step:

svn -R propset svn:keywords -F .keywords *

Or does it work for everyone else automatically?

By: Willie

Willie — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:47:37 +0000

Great! Thanks a lot for the hints.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:57:19 +0000

I couldn’t make it commit with a star since there were files in my root dir which are not under version control. It’s fine if you just do svn commit -m”set ignore”.
Anyway, thanks for the tip!

By: oli

oli — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:16:16 +0000

I’m probably imagining it but it seemed like the command didn’t work until -R was after propset:

svn propset -R svn:ignore -F .svnignore .

Working now - thanks!

By: Theresa

Theresa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:21:02 +0000

Thanks. Just what I was looking for. It worked for me.