Question

I am using SVNKit in my application. I have a scenario wherein certain files should be ignored when doing svn operations. i.e. I need to set the svn:ignore property for certain patterns.

How do I do that using SVNKit?

Answer 1

You could use the ISVNOptions class.

It has a addIgnorePattern() function which should allow you to ignore file based on a given pattern.

If you want to ignore ‘ignore’ within a specific directory, you have to set svn:ignore property on its parent directory, not on the file itself (as being ignored that file will never be added to repository).

File dir = file.getParentFile().getAbsoluteFile(); ourClientManager.getWCClient().doSetProperty(dir, SVNProperty.IGNORE,     file.getName(), false, false, null); 

To ignore more than one file in a directory, svn:ignore property value should contain a line for each ignored file, e.g:

a\n b\n *.bin 

As soon as property is set, commit directory to make new property value be stored in repository.