Question

Im using command and just tried the following:

svn propset svn:ignore "conf.php"

However this opens up vim and if I exit the file svn-prop.tmp file is created.

I don’t want to delete it as I need it, but I would love it if svn could just not list it when i svn st

What when wrong (conf.php is still listed when I svn st) and how do I correct it?

Answer 1

If conf.php has already been committed, then there are no ignore patterns you can throw at Subversion to get it to ignore the file.

What you probably want to do is:

• svn mv conf.php conf.php.template. This will move conf.php to conf.php.template.
• svn commit.
• cp conf.php.template conf.php.

Assuming that you have already set the svn:ignore property, then this should do it. At this point, you will have a versioned conf.php.template file that you can modify when you want the configuration stored in the repository to change, and you have an unversioned conf.php that you can tweak locally without Subversion informing you that it needs to be committed.

If you check out the repository elsewhere, just make sure that you cp conf.php.template conf.php to set up the initial configuration; then you can tweak conf.php as needed.