I don't use Windows, so I can't help you on the escaping of the *, but I
often use propedit, rather than propset (partly because I can never
remember the order of the directory and the property value), so that would
be easy enough for a one-off solution.
Also, if you are using TortoiseSVN, can't you just right-click the
directory and set the property that way and avoid the command-line usage
entirely?
On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
Hi,
Using Subversion "trunk" on Windows built from TortoiseSVN.
I would like to set the svn:ignore property to * on a certain directory.
(I'm trying to ignore everything since I'd only want to explicitly add a
few subdirectories).
I thought this would do the trick
C:\wc>svn propset svn:ignore * directoryname
But alas it expands the * to all files in the current directory. I'd like
to quote the * so the property is set to exactly *. I've found ways to
quote the * (for example '*') but in those cases the property is set to
also include the quotes.
I've digged around and found a few messages in the archive indicating that
Subversion on Windows is using setargv.obj and then the following thread on
Stackoverflow [1] indicating that setargv.obj doesn't have a way to avoid
wildcard expansion.
Does anyone have a trick up the sleve?
The following seems to work but it feels a bit unintuitive:
echo * | svn propset -F - svn:ignore directoryname
Kind regards,
Daniel
[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47512829/is-it-possible-to-quote-escape-command-line-arguments-on-windows-while-linking-s
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