I have a framework based project that I’m using SVN to version control. I have a local working copy I use for development, a working copy on the staging machine that’s checked out the latest RC tag, and the latest stable tag checked out on my production server.
When I’m promoting a tag to live, I simply “switch” the working copy on the live box.
The framework makes lots of temp files, and makes changes to its internals as I’m developing. I don’t want these changes to pollute the repo, as some of them are environment specific, and will be different on the staging and production working copies.
I can’t “ignore” the files & folders, as they’re already version controlled, and are needed when I switch to a new tag on either of my remote boxes.
Is there a way to tell subversion to keep the originally committed version of a file/folder in the repo, but to ignore any subsequent changes?
I finally got somewhere with this – using svn:externals to fix the offending folders to an earlier revision, without all the temp files in there.
Hope this helps someone.