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

This is what I am doing to emulate .svnignore.

Create a wrapper for svn called ~/bin/svn

#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
commit|status|apply-ignore)
    if test -f .svnignore ; then
        echo "Apply .svnignore: $(/usr/bin/svn propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore .)"
    fi
    ;;
esac
case "$1" in
apply-ignore) ;;
*) exec /usr/bin/svn "$@" ;;
esac

Then add ~/bin to your path before /usr/bin

PATH=~/bin:$PATH ; export PATH

It applies .svnignore on commit and status commands, and can also manually apply using svn apply-ignore.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

You can use svn:ignore. You generally need to tell SVN to apply special properties to the files:

svn propset svn:ignore "*.jpg" .

(Note the dot at the end of the command.)

For multiple files you can add a newline character.

Type exactly like here with line breaks:

svn propset svn:ignore "file1
file2
file3" dir1

Check that the files are ignored:

svn status --no-ignore

Then commit the code.

And yes, many duplicate questions are already available.

You can refer my favorite svn cheatguide.

You can create a file, svn-ignore.txt, with your ignored files and directories:

*.class
*.jar
*.war
*.ear
 target/
.classpath
.settings/
.project
.metadata
 bin/

Now try the following:

svn propset svn:ignore -RF /root/svn-ignore.txt . [dot for current dir]

-R is for recursive.