Hi, Thanks for your quick response!
> 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. > Already doing this. But sometimes we forget to 'svn add' a new file which then doesn't show up as modified. User error, surely, but if the mistake can be avoided :-) > 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. > Exactly my thoughts. The only solution I see is to add a new property svn:unignore which is applied after (or in conjunction with) the svn:ignore property. A file is ignored if it matches the svn:ignore glob pattern AND NOT matches the svn:unignore glob pattern. If svn:unignore is empty (or non-existent), the behaviour should be exactly the same as today. The code should be reasonably simple (but I have not analyzed if it would affect anything in the public interface) - only question if maintainers think a new property is a good idea. / Daniel
