Question

How can I construct a MSBuild ItemGroup to exclude .svn directories and all files within (recursively). I’ve got:

<ItemGroup>       <LibraryFiles Include='$(LibrariesReleaseDir)\**\*.*' Exclude='.svn' /> </ItemGroup> 

At the moment, but this does not exclude anything!

Answer 1

Thanks for your help, managed to sort it as follows:

<ItemGroup>      <LibraryFiles Include='$(LibrariesReleaseDir)\**\*.*'                     Exclude='$(LibrariesReleaseDir)\**\.svn\**' /> </ItemGroup> 

Turns out the pattern matching basically runs on files, so you have to exclude everything BELOW the .svn directories (.svn\\**) for MSBuild to exclude the .svn directory itself.