On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:40:19PM +0100, Janosch Scharlipp wrote: > > Hi, i am trying to set the svn:ignore property of a specific folder to "*", > so that all files and folders inside this folder are beeing ignored by svn. > Somehow i don't get this done, i tried lots of different aproaches, but it > always seems as if the pattern is beeing expanded, so that either the > command fails, or the property it beeing set to the wrong value. > > Target folder> svn propset svn:ignore * . > ( command is executed on all contents of . with property value ".svn" (??)) > > Target folder> svn propset svn:ignore "*" . > ( same result) > > Target folder> svn propset svn:ignore "\*" . > ( error: "\xxx is not a working copy" ) > > Target folder> svn propset svn:ignore "^*" . > (no expansion takes place, but property is set to "^*") > > ... > > What would be the way to do what i want? Why is this so difficult? Where > does the expansion take place, is it the command line, or is ist svn? If it > is svn, should the property value not be used without expansion?
See http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-05/0846.shtml Stefan
