Get recursive list of svn:ignore'd files

Question

I have an existing project repo which I use for project A, and has some files and directories excluded from it using svn:ignore. I want to start another project (project B), in a new repo, with approximately the same files ignored in it.

How can I get a list of all files in the repo with svn:ignore set on them and the value of that property? I am using Ubuntu, so sed and grep away if that helps.

Thanks, Joe

Answer 1

Try:

  svn st --no-ignore | grep '^I'

to find the externals.

if you need to find all the svn directories, try:

  find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 dirname

You could try

 find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 dirname | xargs svn pg svn:ignore

to get all the externals, but the output will look something like:

docs - _*

mwbuild - _*
local-settings
*.pyc

i.e., not split along line boundaries. Maybe more sed/awk magic would make that behave?

Answer 2

svn propget -R svn:ignore

Output looks like:

path/to/dir1 - *.exe
*~

path/to/dir2 - #*

path/to/dir3 - ...etc...