How do I ignore a directory with SVN

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I just started using SVN  and I have a cache directory that I don t need under source control  How can I ignore the whole directory folder with SVN   I am using Versions and TextMate on OS nbsp X and commandline

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I had problems getting nested directories to be ignored; the top directory I wanted to ignore wouldn't show with 'svn status' but all the subdirs did. This is probably self-evident to everyone else, but I thought I'd share it:

EXAMPLE:

/trunk

/trunk/cache

/trunk/cache/subdir1

/trunk/cache/subdir2

cd /trunk
svn ps svn:ignore . /cache
cd /trunk/cache
svn ps svn:ignore . *
svn ci

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TO KEEP DIRECTORIES THAT SVN WILL IGNORE    this will delete the files from the repository  but keep the directory under SVN control       svn delete --keep-local path directory to keep      then set to ignore the directory  and all content        svn propset svn ignore     path directory to keep

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To expand slightly  if you re doing this with the svn command-line tool  you want to type   svn propedit svn ignore path to dir   which will open your text-editor of choice  then type     to ignore everything inside it  and save quit - this will include the directory itself in svn  but ignore all the files inside it  to ignore the directory  use the path of the parent  and then type the name of the directory in the file  After saving  run an update   svn up    and then check in the appropriate path

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Thank-you  svn for such a hideous  bogus and difficult way to ignore files   So I wrote a script svn-ignore-all      bin sh    svn-ignore-all    usage       1  run svn status to see what is going on at each step      2  add or commit all files that you DO want to have in svn     3  remove any random files that you don t want to svn ignore     4  run this script to svn ignore everything marked     in output of  svn status   svn status   grep        sed  s           while read f  do     d  dirname   f       b  basename   f       ignore  svn propget svn ignore   d       if   -n   ignore     then         ignore   ignore       fi     ignore   ignore b      svn propset svn ignore   ignore    d  done   Also  to ignore specific list of files   pathnames  we can use this variant svn-ignore   I guess svn-ignore-all should really be like xargs svn-ignore      bin sh    svn-ignore    usage      svn-ignore file to ignore      for f  do     d  dirname   f       b  basename   f       ignore  svn propget svn ignore   d       if   -n   ignore     then         ignore   ignore       fi     ignore   ignore b      svn propset svn ignore   ignore    d  done   One more thing  I tend to pollute my svn checkouts with many random files   When it s time to commit  I move those files into an  old  subdirectory  and tell svn to ignore  old

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Thanks for all the contributions above  I would just like to share some additional information from my experiences while ignoring files     When the folders are already under revision control  After svn import and svn co the files  what we usually do for the first time   All runtime cache  attachments folders will be under version control  so  before svn ps svn ignore  we need to delete it from the repository   With SVN version 1 5 above we can use svn del --keep-local your folder  but for an earlier version  my solution is    svn export a clean copy of your folders  without  svn hidden folder  svn del the local and repository  svn ci Copy back the folders Do svn st and confirm the folders are flagged as     Now we can do svn ps according to the solutions     When we need more than one folder to be ignored   In one directory I have two folders that need to be set as svn ignore If we set one  the other will be removed  Then we wonder we need svn pe   svn pe will need to edit the text file  and you can use this command if required to set your text editor using vi   export SVN EDITOR vi    With  o  you can open a new line Type in all the folder names you want to ignore Hit  esc  key to escape from edit mode Type   wq  then hit Enter to save and quit   The file looks something simply like this   runtime cache attachments assets

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If you are using the particular SVN client TortoiseSVN  then on commit  you have the option of right clicking items and selecting  Add to ignore list

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If you are using a frontend for SVN like TortoiseSVN  or some sort of IDE integration  there should also be an ignore option in the same menu are as the commit add operation

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Since I spent a while trying to get this to work  it should be noted that if the files already exist in SVN  you need to svn delete them  and then edit the svn ignore property   I know that seems obvious  but they kept showing up as   in my svn status list  when I thought it would just ignore them locally

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Remove it first     If your directory foo is already under version control  remove it first with   svn rm --keep-local foo      then ignore   svn propset svn ignore foo

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Solved with Eclipse in the next way   First of all  do a synchronisation of your folder to the project      team -  synchronise    In the next view  team view  you can see all resources that you can commit to the SVN server   So  select the resource folder of the resource that you want to ignore  and then you can ignore it using     team -  add to svn ignore     After that  in the confirmation window  do select the first option   ignore by name    For instance  If I want to ignore the target folder and their  class resources  I ll do synchronise  and in the synchronise view  I ll select the target folder  After that  I ll select     team- add   to svn ignore and then I ll confirm the first option in the confirm window

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Set the svn ignore property of the parent directory   svn propset svn ignore dirname     If you have multiple things to ignore  separate by newlines in the property value   In that case it s easier to edit the property value using an external editor   svn propedit svn ignore

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The command to ignore multiple entries is a little tricky and requires backslashes   svn propset svn ignore  cache  tmp  null  and so on      This command will ignore anything named cache  tmp  null  and and so on in the current directory

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Watch your trailing slashes too   I found that including images   in my ignore setting file did not ignore   images    When I ran svn status -u it still showed   images   So  I just changed the ignore setting to just images  no slashes   Ran a status check and that cleared it out

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Bash oneliner for multiple ignores   svn propset svn ignore   project    n   settings    n   buildpath   yourpath

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Here s an example directory structure    project      source      cache      other   When in project you see that your cache directory is not added and shows up as such    gt  svn st M  source    cache   To set the ignore property  do     svn propset svn ignore cache     where svn ignore is the name of the property you re setting  cache is the value of the property  and   is the directory you re setting this property on  It should be the parent directory of the cache directory that needs the property   To check what properties are set    gt  svn proplist Properties on        svn ignore   To see the value of svn ignore    gt  svn propget svn ignore cache   To delete properties previously set   svn propdel svn ignore

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Since you re using Versions it s actually really easy    Browse your checked-out copy Click the directory to ignore In the  Ignore box on the right click Edit Type     to ignore all files  or   jpg for just jpg files  etc

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Jason s answer will do the trick   However  instead of setting svn ignore to     on the cache directory  you may want to include  cache  in the parent directory s svn ignore property  in case the cache directory is not always present   I do this on a number of  throwaway  folders

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Set the svn ignore property on the parent directory     cd parentdir   svn ps svn ignore    cachedir    This will overwrite any current value of svn ignore  You an edit the value with     svn pe svn ignore     Which will open your editor  You can add multiple patterns  one per line   You can view the current value with     svn pg svn ignore     If you are using a GUI there should be a menu option to do this

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and if you want to ignore more than one directory  say build  temp  and   tmp files   you could either do it in two steps  ignoring the first and edit ignore properties  see other answers here  or one could write something like  svn propset svn ignore  build temp   tmp      on the command line

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Set the svn ignore property   Most UI svn tools have a way to do this as well as the command line discussion in the link

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After losing a lot of time looking for how to do this simple activity  I decided to post it was not hard to find a decent explanation   First let the sample structure    svn st   project trunk target   project trunk myfile x  1     first configure the editor in mycase vim export SVN EDITOR vim  2        svn propedit svn ignore project trunk     will open a new file and you can add your files and subdirectory in us case type    target    save and close file and works    svn st   project trunk myfile x  thanks

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Important to mention   On the commandline you can t use  svn add     This will also add the ignored files  because the command line expands   and therefore svn add believes that you want all files to be added  Therefore use this instead   svn add --force

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If your project directory is named  Project  and your cache directory is named  Project Cache  then you need to set a subversion property on  Project  The property name should be  svn ignore  and the property value should be  Cache    Refer to this page in the Subversion manual for more on properties

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