Question

If I apply a Subversion property recursively to a top-level folder (the top of the repository, for example) but I don’t have all the children checked out, will the property still get recursively applied?

The reason I ask is because I have an enormous repository to apply svn:ignore to (recursively), but I don’t want to check out every folder underneath it due to time constraints. I want to make sure the setting is still going to apply to the children.

Thanks.

Answer 1

No. If you need to apply the property to all the children, you can do so with --recursive but you need to actually have the children in your working copy.