SVN Is there a way to mark a file as do not commit

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With TortoiseSVN  I can move a file into the ignore-on-commit changelist  so that when I commit a whole tree  changes to that file do not get committed   Is there a way to do something like that using the svn command-line tool   EDIT  Thanks for the suggestions to use svn ignore  but that doesn t do quite what I was looking for   svn ignore affects things like svn add  amp  svn import  It gives it a list of filename patterns to ignore   I have a file that s already under source control  but I want to make temporary changes to that file that I don t want to be committed later on when I commit the whole source tree  I am making a lot of other changes and I could stick a note on my monitor telling me to revert that file before I commit the tree  but it would be nice if svn could automatically skip that file

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Update of user88044 s script   The idea is to push the files in the do-not-commit changelist and run the evil script   The script extracts the do-not-commit files from the command   svn status --changelist  do-not-commit          bin bash      DIR    pwd        IGNORE FILES    svn status --changelist  do-not-commit    tail -n  3   grep -oE                 for i in  IGNORE FILES  do mv  DIR  i  DIR   i    done       svn            for i in  IGNORE FILES  do mv  DIR   i    DIR  i  done    The script is placed in  usr bin svnn  sudo chmod  x  usr bin svnn   svnn status  svnn commit  etc

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I ve consistently found myself in this situation too  and changelists don t work for me - I want to make a short list of files that I don t want to commit  rather than maintain a m-a-s-s-i-v-e list of files that I do want to commit     I work on the linux command-line  so my solution is to create a script  usr bin svnn  yes  with two  n s   as follows       bin bash DIR  home mike dev trunk  IGNORE FILES            foo pom xml           foo src gwt App gwt xml           foo src main java gwt Common gwt xml           foo src main resources context datasource local xml           foo src main resources context environment local xml   for i in  IGNORE FILES  do mv  DIR  i  DIR   i    done   svn       for i in  IGNORE FILES  do mv  DIR   i    DIR  i  done    Obviously  this is tailored to my situation - but just change DIR and IGNORE FILES to suit your dev setup  Remeber to change the script to executable with   sudo chmod  x  usr bin svnn     then you just use  svnn  instead of  svn  to run subversion without fear of checking in local changes to the files on the IGNORE FILES list   I hope this helps

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I don t believe there is a way to ignore a file in the repository  We often run into this with web config and other configuration files    Although not perfect  the solution I most often see and use is to have  default file and an nant task to create local copies   For example  in the repo is a file called web config default that has default values  Then create a nant task that will rename all the web config default files to web config that can then be customized to local values  This task should be called when a new working copy is retrieved or a build is run   You ll also need to ignore the web config file that is created so that it isn t committed to the repository

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A solution that does not ignore changes in directory properties  I tried to use the solution based on changelist  but I have a couple of issues with it  First my repository has thousand of files  so the changelist to be committed is huge  and my svn status output became way too long and needed to be parsed to be useful  Most important is that I wanted to commit changes that came from a merge  which means they include property changes  When committing a changelist  the svn properties attached to the directory are not committed  so I had to do an extra commit   svn ci --cl work -m  this commits files from the work changelist only  svn up svn ci --depth empty DIR   -m  record merge properties    You may have to do that for several directories  here I record the properties of DIR and of the current dir     basically those with a M in the second column when issuing the svn status command   Solution  I used patches and svn patch  In pseudo-code   svn diff  IGNORE FILES  gt  MYPATCH     get the mods to ignore svn patch --reverse-diff MYPATCH     remove the mods svn ci -m  message                   check-in files and directory properties svn patch MYPATCH                    re-apply the mods   Like other posters  I end up using a script to maintain the list of files to ignore       usr bin env bash  finish         svn patch MYPATCH                 re-apply the mods   trap finish EXIT  IGNORE FILES    sources platform ecmwf-cca-intel-mpi xml   runtime classic platform ecmwf-cca job tmpl   runtime classic platform ecmwf-cca-intel xml   svn diff  IGNORE FILES  gt  MYPATCH   get the mods to ignore svn patch --reverse-diff MYPATCH   remove the mods  svn        I typically used it with ci and revert -R

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svn propset  svn ignore     xml      the   xml is the pattern of files to ignore   you can use directory names here as well

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I would instead write a helper bash script that runs svn commit on all the files you need to and none of the ones you don t  This way you have much more control   For example  with one line  you can commit all files with extension  h and  cpp to which you made changes  and which wouldn t cause a conflict    svn commit -m     svn status   grep   M   h cpp      awk   print  2     tr    n         Change   add extensions to the  h cpp  part  Add a log message in between the quotes of -m    if needed

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As I was facing the exact same issue  and my googling kept giving me nothing  I think I found a workaround  Here s what I did  it seems to work for me  but as I m stuck with an old version of SVN   lt  1 5  as it doesn t have the --keep-local option  and I m no expert of it  I can t be sure it s an universal solution  If it works for you too  please let me know    I was dealing with a Prestashop install I got from SVN  since other people had already started working on it  Since the DB settings were done for another server  I changed them in some file in the  config folder  As this folder was already versioned  setting it in svn ignore would not prevent my local modifications on it from being committed  Here s what I did    cp config    cfg bkp                copy the files out of the repo svn rm config                       delete files both from svn and  physically  svn propset svn ignore  config      as the files no longer exists  I can add my ignore rule and then    mv    cfg bkp config                   bring em back svn revert --recursive config       make svn forget any existing status for the files  they won t be up for deletion anymore    Now I can run svn add --force   at the repo root without adding my config  even if it s not matching the repo s version  I guess I would have to go through all this again if I modified it one more time  did not test   I can svn update as well without having my files being overwritten or getting any error

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Subversion does not have a built-in  do not commit     ignore on commit  feature  as of February 2016   version 1 9  This answer is a non-ideal command-line workaround  As the OP states  TortoiseSVN has a built in changelist   ignore-on-commit   which is automatically excluded from commits  The command-line client does not have this  so you need to use multiple changelists to accomplish this same behavior  with caveats     one for work you want to commit  work  one for things you want to ignore  ignore-on-commit    Since there s precedent with TortoiseSVN  I use  ignore-on-commit  in my examples for the files I don t want to commit  I ll use  work  for the files I do  but you could pick any name you wanted   First  add all files to a changelist named  work   This must be run from the root of your working copy   svn cl work   -R   This will add all files in the working copy recursively to the changelist named  work   There is a disadvantage to this - as new files are added to the working copy  you ll need to specifically add the new files or they won t be included  Second  if you have to run this again you ll then need to re-add all of your  ignore-on-commit  files again  Not ideal - you could start maintaining your own  ignore  list in a file as others have done   Then  for the files you want to exclude   svn cl ignore-on-commit path to file-to-ignore   Because files can only be in one changelist  running this addition after your previous  work  add will remove the file you want to ignore from the  work  changelist and put it in the  ignore-on-commit  changelist   When you re ready to commit your modified files you do wish to commit  you d then simply add  --cl work  to your commit   svn commit --cl work -m  message    Here s what a simple example looks like on my machine   D  workspace trunk gt svn cl work   -R Skipped     Skipped  src  Skipped  src conf  A  work  src conf db properties Skipped  src java  Skipped  src java com  Skipped  src java com corp  Skipped  src java com corp sample  A  work  src java com corp sample Main java Skipped  src java com corp sample controller  A  work  src java com corp sample controller Controller java Skipped  src java com corp sample model  A  work  src java com corp sample model Model java Skipped  src java com corp sample view  A  work  src java com corp sample view View java Skipped  src resource  A  work  src resource icon ico Skipped  src test   D  workspace trunk gt svn cl ignore-on-commit src conf db properties D  work  src conf db properties A  ignore-on-commit  src conf db properties  D  workspace trunk gt svn status  --- Changelist  work           src java com corp sample Main java         src java com corp sample controller Controller java         src java com corp sample model Model java M       src java com corp sample view View java         src resource icon ico  --- Changelist  ignore-on-commit   M       src conf db properties  D  workspace trunk gt svn commit --cl work -m  fixed refresh issue  Sending        src java com corp sample view View java Transmitting file data  done Committing transaction    Committed revision 9    An alternative would be to simply add every file you wish to commit to a  work  changelist  and not even maintain an ignore list  but this is a lot of work  too  Really  the only simple  ideal solution is if when this gets implemented in SVN itself  There s a longstanding issue about this in the Subversion issue tracker  SVN-2858  in the event this changes in the future

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This is late to the game  but I found the most awesome-est command line command for this problem  Done using bash  Enjoy   svn status   grep -v excluding   sed  s  A     g  s     g    tr   n        xargs svn commit -m  My Message    Ok  so here s an explanation of the command  Some things will need to be changed based on your use case   svn status   I get a list of all the files  They ll all start with those status characters        A  etc   Each is on its own lines  grep -v excluding   I use grep to filter the list  It can either be used normally  to include  or with the -v flag  to exclude   In this case  it s being used to exclude  with a phrase  excluding  being what will be excluded   sed  s        g  s     g    Now I remove the status character and whitespace at the beginning of each line  and then quote each line  using sed  Some of my filenames have spaces in them  hence the quoting   tr   n        Using tr  I replace all newlines with spaces  Now my entire list of files to commit is on one line   xargs svn commit -m  My Message    Lastly  I use xargs to execute my commit command with the message  It does the commit  and drops my quoted file list as the last argument   The result is that everything ultimately works the way that I want it to  I still kind of hate svn for forcing me to jump through these goddamn hoops  but I can live with this  I guess

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Guys I just found a solution  Given that TortoiseSVN works the way we want  I tried to install it under Linux - which means  running on Wine  Surprisingly it works  All you have to do is    Add files you want to skip commit by running   svn changelist  ignore-on-commit     Use TortoiseSVN to commit      wine drive c Program  Files TortoiseSVN bin TortoiseProc exe  command commit  path   The files excluded will be unchecked for commit by default  while other modified files will be checked  This is exactly the same as under Windows  Enjoy     The reason why need to exclude files by CLI is because the menu entry for doing that was not found  not sure why  Any way  this works great

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Conflicted files are not allowed to be committed   You can take advantage of this to keep your private changes out of the repository   This works best with a small number of files   To get a conflict for a-file  your working copy  WC  does not have the up to date a-file from the repository  and that the a-file in your WC has changes that are in the same location as changes in the repository  changes that you didn t update to yet    If you don t want to wait for the conditions above you can create a conflict for a-file like this  In working copy 1  WC1   add a line of text to the top of a-file  such as  make a conflict here    Use the necessary syntax so that you don t break the repository   Commit a-file from WC1   In WC2  add a different line of text to the top of a-file  like  i want a conflict    Update from WC2  and now a-file should be in conflict

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I got tired of waiting for this to get built into SVN  I was using tortoiseSVN with ignore-on-commit  but that pops up a user dialog box that you can t suppress from the command line  and when I run my build script and go and make a cup of tea  I hate it when I come back to discover it s waiting for user input 10  of the way through    So here s a windows powershell script that commits only files that aren t in a changelist     get list of changed files into targets  XML  svnStatus   svn st -q --xml C  SourceCode Monad   select the nodes that aren t in a changelist  fileList    svnStatus SelectNodes   status target entry wc-status  item     unversioned       Foreach-Object     path     create a temp file of targets  fileListPath     IO Path   GetTempFileName     fileList   out-file  fileListPath -Encoding ASCII   do the commit svn commit --targets  fileListPath -m  Publish  version  --keep-changelists    remove the temp file Remove-Item  filelistPath

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Some of the proposed ideas can be implemented like this   On Windows in PowerShell  add all to default list ps1  dir -Recurse       -not    PSIsContainer         svn cl default    FullName     add to ignore list ps1   dir file1     filN         FullName    gt  ignore-on-commit  cat   ignore-on-commit       svn cl ignore-on-commit       svn add ignore-on-commit   Now  you can alias svn ci --changelist default so that you don t have to specify it each time  The additional benefit is that you can store the ignore-on-commit list  if you want  in the repository    I do this for some files which are constantly regenerated but rarely actually changed by hand  For instance I add revision number to my config files on specific placeholders so files are changed on each commit  yet manual change is rare

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If you are on linux  below answer will be useful Step 1 Create  svnignore file in root level of your working copy  and add folders files in each new line e g  below     folder1 folder2 folder3 file2 html folder4 file1 js  Note  You also need to add    as that points to root directory Tip  To get exact folder file path  run svn st -u then copy and paste same path in  svnignore file Step 2 Run below command to commit everything except folder files from  svnignore file svn ci -m  quot YOUR-COMMENT-HERE quot    svn st   grep -v -w -f  svnignore   awk   print  NF     Command Explanation  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     svn ci                Shorthand for svn commit                                                                                    -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      svn st                Shorthand for svn status                                                                                    -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                            Pipe    is used to pass output of previous command to next command s input                                  -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      grep                  grep is a linux command to filter                                                                           -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      grep -v               Give result other than matched  Inverse                                                                     -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      grep -w               Exact match used to match literal Dot                                                                       -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      grep -f filename      Read pattern from file                                                                                      -------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      awk   print  NF       print last column data  columns are divided with space delimiter   used to get exact folder file names     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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I came to this thread looking for a way to make an  atomic  commit of just some files and instead of ignoring some files on commit I went the other way and only commited the files I wanted   svn ci filename1 filename2   Maybe  it will help someone

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svn ignore is your answer   Example     svn propset svn ignore -F  cvsignore   property  svn ignore  set on

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Check out changelists  which can provide you with an option to filter out files you have changed but do not want to commit  SVN will not automatically skip a file unless you tell it to - and the way you tell it that this file is somehow different to other files is to put it in a changelist   It does require more work for you  and you can only apply the changelist to your working copy  obviously  imagine the chaos that could ensue if you could apply a  never update  property to a revision

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You can configure the  ignore-on-commit  changelist directly with TortoiseSVN  No need to configure any other changelist including all the others files  1  Click  SVN Commit      we will not commit  just a way to find a graphical menu for the changelist  2  On the list Right click on the file you want to exclude  3  Menu  move to changelist   ignore-on-commit  The next time you do a SVN Commit    The files will appear unchecked at the end of the list  under the category ignore-on-commit   Tested with   TortoiseSVN 1 8 7  Build 25475 - 64 Bit   2014 05 05 20 52 12   Subversion 1 8 9  -release

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