I'm probably reading too much into ignore, but other than not showing up in the list when you commit, are there any other feature/benefits associated with ignoring a file?
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It also doesn't clutter your svn status list. But anyway, not commiting files to the repo that don't need to be versioned (e.g. because they are created by the application, or they are settings files) is a pretty useful feature by itself, I'd think.
balpha
2009-08-19 18:19:44
I agree and I started adding files to the ignore list since I'm starting to accumulate alot of files.But assuming that a non-versioned file doesn't get to the repo and you don't mind doing a "turn a blind eye manual ignore" and you have few files to ignore, I don't see much difference between leaving a file un-versioned vs adding it to ignore, but I definitely see the merits/benefits when you have alot of files to ignore.Anyways, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
Steve
2009-08-19 19:55:39
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files to ignore:
- files generated during a build (local properties, byte code, etc)
- files generated during runtime (log files)
- svn meta files
imagine NOT being able to ignore all of this
andersonbd1
2009-08-19 18:29:00