SVN ignore like .gitignore

Question

In Git, if I have a project with lots of projects inside, let\'s suppose, a lot of Java projects, I can just create a .gitignore file in the root and it will \"be r

Answer 1

I solved this problem a slightly different way. This will only work if you're using a Bash shell and have Perl installed, but that's pretty much every Mac and Linux machine.

Add the following to your .bashrc and .bash_profile files:

alias _ss="svn status | egrep -v '`cat .svnignore|perl -p -e 's/\n/|/'`'"

Don't forget to either restart your terminal or do:

source ~/.bashrc
(or .bash_profile if that's what you used)

Now create a file called .svnignore, and put it in the directory where your repository is checked out.

files/to/ignore
another/file
tmp
node_modules

Now when you run

_ss

in the root directory of your working copy, it will read the .svnignore file and ignore anything in it.

I version the .svnignore file the same way I would version a .gitignore file.

NOTE: This only affects the svn status command, and it won't prevent you from adding/committing ignored files.