Comments on: svn:ignore propset

By: Sascha W.

Sascha W. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:35:07 +0000

John’s solution seems to be the best one.
Thanks to all.

Lukas Zapletal — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:58:28 +0000

Good trick the one with -F. Thanks :-D

john campbell — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:01:57 +0000

Don’t bother with propset… use propedit

svn propedit svn:ignore .

will bring up your editor, and you can add the rules directly.

It also avoid the potential confusion caused by expansion of ‘*’

Howard — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:27:50 +0000

It seems that using \n to embed a newline character in the property string should work to set svn:ignore to multiple files, but it does not.

JN2 — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:45:16 +0000

You can also try this in a shell script called with a space separated single quoted list, eg ‘qwe.txt asd.pid’:

svn propset svn:ignore “`echo “$1″ | tr ‘ ‘ ‘\n’`” .

mregamr — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Massimo32, this was the key I was looking for…how to add a newline in between arguments.

Thanks!!

Massimo32 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:13:56 +0000

You can insert multiple lines from the commandline, just press enter inside the quotes:

$ svn propset svn:ignore ‘config.php [enter]
> database.php’ . [enter]

Alex Egg — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:26:53 +0000

Thank you for this. This was not very intuitive at all! No mention of this in the svn book that I could find…