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How do I specify a negative pattern in an svn:ignore value

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The idea is that you make a file pattern which matches all files, except .htaccess. In the article, they use character classes to make such a pattern.

E.g.

[^a]*

Matches any file which first letter is not an a. This won't work if you specify the full .htaccess filename like this, but the following may work for you:

[^.]*

This will ignore any file not starting with a dot.

Sjoerd 2010-09-30 07:40:09

They use slightly different syntax though... Should I use your syntax or theirs?

Nasko 2010-09-30 07:54:21

I don't understand what is different. They have a pattern on each line, which is good. They match extensions (i.e. the end of the filename) so they have `*foo`, where the asterisk matches anything. If you want to match a filename starting with a dot, you would have `.*`. A filename not starting with a dot would be `[^.]*`. That is, something else than a dot, followed by anything.

Sjoerd 2010-09-30 08:29:17

'different syntax' I was referring to the negation character. The use *[!x], while you use [^a]*

Nasko 2010-10-01 18:37:19

Answer 2

+2 A:

Subversion will not apply the patterns in svn:ignore to already versioned files. So in your example the pattern * should be OK. Just ignore everything unversioned.

schot 2010-09-30 08:12:32

schot, thanks for your tip! This works for me for the situation at hand, but still does not answer my question

Nasko 2010-10-01 18:32:56

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