An excellent alternative. I will keep this in mind. Thanks Andrew JM
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Reedick [mailto:andrew.reed...@cbeyond.net] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:52 PM To: John Maher; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: Strange behavior > -----Original Message----- > From: John Maher [mailto:jo...@rotair.com] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:27 PM > To: Bob Archer; Edwin Castro; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: RE: Strange behavior > > Thanks Bob, that may be exactly what I am looking for. Something that > would affect all the files without having to issue over 200 commands > or build a dummy directory just for importing. Although that second > suggestion provided by Andrew is definitely better than the first. > > I couldn't find where it discusses the global config in the book, if > it does at all. And even if it does I doubt it would help because it > won't tell me where to find the file. Unless there is a command to > edit it. I tried a search and someone says there is a site-wide > config (what I need) and a user config but not where they are. I am > using Windows XP and an having a difficult time finding this file. > > I can't even find the name of it. If someone can provide that I could > at least search for it and hope it has some clue inside as how to > alter it. > Plan B might be to use svn_load_dirs.pl: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_load_dirs/ It has a "glob_ignores" option, or will try to read your global-ignores from your local svn config file. >From the script: =============== # If no glob_ignores specified, try to deduce from config file, # or use the default below. my $ignores_str = '*.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store'; if ( defined $opt_glob_ignores) { $ignores_str = $opt_glob_ignores; } elsif ( -f "$ENV{HOME}/.subversion/config" ) { open my $conf, "$ENV{HOME}/.subversion/config"; while (<$conf>) { if ( /^global-ignores\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$/ ) { $ignores_str = $1; last; } } }
