Question

I am being forced to work with Subversion on a current project.

Someone has unkindly added the bin and obj folders to the repository.

Other than removing them, and committing the removal, is there an equivalent of .gitignore file I can add to the repository to make the guilty party in the development team never add them again?

I know I can alter my own global ignore pattern, but ideally I’d like the whole development team to be able to share this on a project level.

Answer 1

This is done by a svn:ignore property in SVN. This property can be added to a folder.
Let us imagine the following:

 +-- root
       +-- bin
       +-- ...

to ignore the bin folder you have to set the svn:ignore property onto the root folder. First change into the root folder and do the following on command line:

svn propset svn:ignore "bin" .

Or you can do this via TortoiseSVN on Windows (file->properties->Subversion Tab).. Further reading in the Subversion book.