Re: [PLUG] subversion question

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

Tim, James, Ezra:

Your suggestions were all right on the money!
I was not aware that I could just go in and delete from the svn
repository but that makes sense.

I've set global-ignores for now and I'll finesse it for future projects.

Thanks again,

Eric

Ezra Wolfe wrote:
> To clarify in case that was confusing: Copy the files you wanted
> ignored to another directory. Do an SVN delete of the files you want
> ignored. Add the ignore property. Then paste them back in to the
> original location (make sure to remove any .svn directories).
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ezra Wolfe <ewolfe@dlc-solutions.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've had the same problem and pretty sure this also works (caveat:
>> it's been a while since this happened) .
>>
>> Delete the file(s) from the repo. Add the ignore property. Re-add the files.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> BZZZZT!  Previous email sent before it was complete...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a question about using subversion:
>>>
>>> I have a tree of source code - but several files and perhaps one
>>> specific subdirectory are to be left out of subversion.  In my case it's
>>> the config.php file which is different between my development and
>>> production code.  I may even want to leave out ALL the files in the
>>> configuration directory and manually maintain any changes there.
>>>
>>> All the tutorials and instructions I see tell me to use:
>>>
>>> svn import project_dir file:///home/svn/project
>>>
>>> ..but this brings ALL the files in the tree "project_dir" into the project.
>>>
>>> NEVERMIND:  In the course of researching the question I found this (AKA: The answer):
>>>
>>>        Subversion's support for ignorable file patterns extends
>>>        only to the one-time process of adding unversioned
>>>        files and directories to version control.  Once an object is
>>>        under Subversion's control, the ignore pattern mechanisms no
>>>        longer apply to it.  In other words, don't expect Subversion
>>>        to avoid committing changes you've made to a versioned file
>>>        simply because that file's name matches an ignore
>>>        pattern—Subversion /always/ notices
>>>        all of its versioned objects.
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
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