Question

I know about the svn:ignore property, but that doesn’t solve my problem.

I have a source directory. I want to create a directory inside it, called “build” that I will build inside. I don’t want to put “build” in svn:ignore because other people using the same repository don’t need it ignored, and I may want to have different names for this.

The general problem is this:

Given a working copy of a subversion directory, I want to make a subdirectory that will be ignored by svn without modifying anything on the server. If I could make a directory and stick an empty “.svn_ignore_this_directory” file inside it or something, that would be awesome. I think in git it would be something like making a .gitignore file with just “.” in it, but maybe that’s not right. Can svn do this?

Answer 1

You have a .subversion file that defines the configuration of your local machine (the location of this file will depend on your OS). Inside that file, use the global-ignores option to configure files or folders that you want your local Subversion to ignore. Changes made to this file will only affect your machine.