Hi Im using subversion on a freebsd machine.
With a project I have a couple of directories such as cache and a tmp folder used by Smarty. How do I exclude these folders from being committed ever? Also .project files from Eclipse is always added to the list to be commited. Can I also ignore that?
Thanks.
Use the svn:ignore property like this:
svn propedit svn:ignore ./some_path
It will open a text editor where you can specify a pattern (allowing * as a wildcard) of files to ignore.
If you use a GUI client for SVN or an IDE plugin, it should also allow you to ignore resources.
You have two solutions for that.
The first one is (as suggested by Frank) to look into the documentation (more recent link) for a repository-specific solution, basically the idea is to add svn:ignore properties to directories that will ignore file patterns. This is local in your database, and will be ignored anywhere a checkout is made.
The second one is to globally ignore some patterns for one user with global-ignores. You can edit your Subversion client configuration file (its location depends on the platform - on Windows you can conveniently access it through TortoiseSVN menu). This is global for all the databases for one user on one machine.