Problem hiding files & folders in TortoiseSVN

Question

I would like to configure Tortoise's global ignore patterns to hide the folder "scripts/shavrir/database" and everything under it, including subfolders. For this, I added to the global ignore patterns this pattern:

"scripts/shavrir/database/*.*"

This has no effect, neither of files directly in said folder or in its sub-folders.

I don't want to use .svnignore file because I'd like to get the effect on all branches. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The global ignore list does not use paths. For this, you want to use the svn:ignore property, which is simple if you're using TortoiseSVN.

Answer 2

You want to set the svn:ignore property to this value

database

on all of your

scripts/shavrir

folders. You’ll only have to do it once, because from then on when you create a branch (which is a copy), it will copy the properties of this folder as well.