Question

I am using the svn:ignore property for the first time, so I may be misunderstanding something.

I am working on an iOS application. I have an Xcode project and I want to ignore the xcuserdata folder. Using the Mac Terminal application, I go to the root of my svn repository and try to ignore the folder using:

svn propset svn:ignore path/to/my/folder/MyProject.xcodeproj/xcuserdata .

If I check the svn:ignore property using:

svn propedit svn:ignore .

I see:

path/to/my/folder/MyProject.xcodeproj/xcuserdatata

I have committed and updated, but I do an svn status, I still see the folder with a ? mark beside it. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? I am using svn version 1.6.17 (r1128011).

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Edited to add that my question seems similar to this one: SVN just won't ignore a folder, despite propset svn:ignore, but in my case none of the files in the folder I want to ignore seem to be added to svn, nor is the folder that I want to ignore added to svn.

Answer 1

I think you want:

svn propset svn:ignore xcuserdata path/to/my/folder/MyProject.xcodeproj

ie you want to ignore xcuserdata at the path.