Question

I’m trying to make subversion ignore a folder, so I did from the parent folder:

svn propset svn:ignore folder-to-ignore .

but the svn st is still listing the files within that folder with a “?” (not on version control).

I want to ignore the folder itself (which is on version control), as there are always new files inside it.

Any idea how to proceed?

Answer 1

If the folder (or a file) is already in version control, it cannot be ignored. But you can ignore all files inside that folder — just set the svn:ignore property on that folder instead:

svn propset svn:ignore "*" folder-to-ignore

The folder itself will still be tracked (and created on a new checkout).