I have a junk folder, where my application puts temporary files. I don’t want to commit them (surely), but the folder must exists or application will crash.
If I use standard TortoiseSVN ignore feature, it will add “svn:ignore junk_folder” property to parent folder, but it will also delete “junk_folder” which cannot happen.
If I revert only delete operation (did by TortoiseSVN) but leave adding “svn:ignore” property, this solution will fail. TortoiseSVN will report files inside “junk_folder” as non-versioned, which I want to avoid.
Is there any solution that would allow me to completely ignore particular folder in SVN (so no matter, what will be put in it, won’t be reported as unversioned and won’t be auto commited as well) without deleting it?
EDIT: I forgot to add that I’m talking about already versioned folder. It seems that, if you ignore (svn:ignore or proper option in TortoiseSVN) a folder that wasn’t yet versioned (before first commit) then everything is OK. But, if you do this on the folder that already was in repository, TortoiseSVN marks it as deleted and deletes it from both repository (but not from Local Working Copy) upon next commit.
I believe you can just add an svn:ignore for “*” within that folder, instead of on “junk_folder” itself (in other words, ignore “junk_folder/*”).
I don’t know if TortoiseSVN has a button for that, but from the command line you can do it with the command:
(at least I think that is the right syntax, off the top of my head. if someone thinks that is wrong, please correct me)