If I am in a directory and type `svn propget svn:ignore -R` then the path on each line is relative to the current working directory as you would expect.
However if I cd to the parent and then type `svn propget svn:ignore -R subdir` then subdir is only shown in the path for items that are below the immediate children of the subdir. $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.14 (r1542130) compiled Nov 20 2015, 19:25:09 Copyright (C) 2013 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - with Cyrus SASL authentication - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme To my knowledge, subversion is the standard package provided by the CentOS repos. Transcript of terminal session follows 11:56~/Work/core-api$ svn propget svn:ignore -R | sed -ne '/./p' WebContent - answers.home WebContent/cdn - tmp WebContent/cdn/images - *.png WebContent/cdn/merchants - * WebContent/cdn/program_templates - * WebContent/docs - * php_includes/application/libraries - anet_1.1.8 php_uploads - invoices csv_imports support/crons/running - *.process *.pid support/post-install/snapshots - dev-core.trac_07 eric-production-122915.snapshot prod.20151216 scion-air-invoicing legacy-snapshot.template local-prod-runtime-fix snapshot.20160310 snapshot.0222 prod-core.20160214.snapshot support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/config - prod-tunnel.db my-local.db support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data - branch.brad.201* branch.* 11:57~/Work/core-api$ cd .. 11:57~/Work$ svn propget svn:ignore -R core-api | sed -ne '/./p' core-api/WebContent - answers.home core-api/WebContent/cdn - tmp core-api/WebContent/cdn/images - *.png core-api/WebContent/cdn/merchants - * core-api/WebContent/cdn/program_templates - * core-api/WebContent/docs - * core-api/php_includes/application/libraries - anet_1.1.8 core-api/php_uploads - invoices csv_imports core-api/support/crons/running - *.process *.pid core-api/support/post-install/snapshots - dev-core.trac_07 eric-production-122915.snapshot prod.20151216 scion-air-invoicing legacy-snapshot.template local-prod-runtime-fix snapshot.20160310 snapshot.0222 prod-core.20160214.snapshot core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/config - prod-tunnel.db my-local.db core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data - branch.brad.201* branch.* -- Jeff Orrok, Sr. Software Engineer email: jor...@incentco.com cell: 303-995-0138 skype: jeffoire66