On Sep 8, 2011, at 11:41, Randy Paries wrote: > i though i understood but does not seem to be working as i expected > > my current dir structure is > / > /inc > /userdirs/a/aa > /userdirs/b/ba > /userdirs/a hole bunch of recursive dirs > /bunchofotherdirs > > so when i do a svn up i want to ignore or not update > userdirs and below > inc/settings.php > > i have created a file in / called svnIgnoreFiles.me > i then did > > [root@moosejaw html]# svn propset svn:ignore -F svnIgnoreFiles.me . > property 'svn:ignore' set on '.' > > i delete userdirs/* > > but when i do a svn up it still brings down from svn all the userdirs > > what part am i missing??
svn:ignore is for ignoring unversioned files that you do not want to commit to a repository. If the files are already committed to the repository, then svn:ignore is not applicable.
