I ran into an unexpected behavior with svn:ignore today and wanted to see if someone can verify whether this is a bug (in the current version) or just an aspect of how Subversion works. We're still on 1.6x.
Given a tree with trunk + cache + htdocs + logs + system I have tried putting cd trunk svn propset svn:ignore logs/* . ...ignore everything in the *logs* directory, but the svn:ignore propset is on *trunk*. This doesn't work -- that is, log files are not ignored as expected, but shown as new files when running the project and svn status However, cd logs svn propset svn:ignore * . ...setting svn:ignore * on logs, works. For what it's worth, externals works fine this way, e.g. cd trunk svn propset svn:externals some/arbitrary/directory http://svn-server/repo/folder . // some/arbitrary/directory is created from the externally referenced svn-server/repo/folder as expected We were hoping to set all our externals and ignores on the trunk level rather than sprinkling them throughout our project, but it doesn't seem possible. -- This email, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify us by reply email or by telephone, delete this email and destroy any copies. Thank you.
