Question

I have a project which is source controlled using Subversion and VisualSVN. Since the version of web.config is different on the server and the developers’ computers I want the file to remain on the computers but to be ignored by Subversion. I added it to the svn:ignore but it still remains (and still has a red exclamation mark too since we are not committing it).

How can I remove it from Subversion safely without it being deleted from the files system

Thanks, Adin

Answer 1

you’ll have to do both the remove and ignore operation

• first make a backup of your local file (like @ibz said)
• then remove the web.config from the repository.
• then copy back the web.config to the same folder
• finally use svn:ignore so that subversion does not try to add it again to the repository

since i use tortoisesvn i can’t really tell you what svn commands you have to use, but using tortoisesvn it would be:

• make backup
• right click on web.config on the folder under source control, select TortoiseSVN | Delete
• right click on web.config on the folder under source control, select SVN Commit => after this you will notice that the file is actually deleted from the file system
• move up and right click on the folder under source control, select TortoiseSVN | Properties
• on the properties window click new + property name ‘svn:ignore’; property value ‘web.config’. accept changes
• commit changes

on my .net projects i include the following exclusion with svn:ignore: bin, obj, *.suo, *.user