Subversion: Ignore a Directory in the Repo on Commit

Question

I have all the boost header files in this repository and when I do a check in it takes a really long time to scan all those files that will never change.
Because I want users that checkout the project to be able to compile without installing boost I am in a pickle.

I want to checkout everything, and then ignore updates (there will never be any) on a directory.

Tortoise svn has a ignore-on-commit change list, but I cannot find anyway to add an entire directory to this list, and I do not fancy the idea of 'modifying' all the boost files so I can add them to this change list.

Is there a simple solution?

Answer 1

Perhaps you could use Subversion "externals" to store the Boost header files in another Subversion repository. That way, Subversion won't need to scan that directory when checking for updates to your project, but users who check out your project will automatically get the whole thing including the Boost dependency.

Answer 2

Additional to Greg's answer, you may also have a look on the possibility to update to a specific revision. Thus, you could make sure, a client would not get unintentionally any updates on the "Boost" project.

br, Marcel