On 11.06.2020 10:46, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this belongs in users or in dev so I follow the guidelines > and post here first. > > I would like to svn:ignore every file (in a certain path) except files > starting with XX or YY. > > This question seems to have been asked in 2006 ("inverse of svn:ignore > property"). I've tried to trace the code and it seems nothing came out > of this. > > Considering there has been 14 years of development, is there another > way to solve this nowadays?
There's no explicit "inverse of svn:ignore" property, or any magic syntax that would invert the match. The way I solve a similar case is to set svn:ignore to '*', i.e., to ignore everything, then just 'svn add' the files I want under version control. It's not ideal, as you'd miss the files you're interested in. About feature design -- unfortunately we can't just invent a syntax that would invert the meaning of the glob patterns in svn:ignore, as that would break backward compatibility. Any ideas for a solution would be most welcome. -- Brane