> I'm a new SVN user.   I just checked in a small project to a
> repository. All the functions I tried work s not real problems
> 
> But, I did not think until now that I should have excluded files
> such
> as core files and logs and autoconf's cache from version controls.
> I
> now know how to a global ignore and a ignore foe one directory but
> how
> to remove these files from version control once they are already
> there.     Is "svn rm" the best why?  But that will remove them
> from
> the working directory too.  I don't want that.

Use the --keep-local switch.

 
> Next is these a way to make the ignore property for a directory
> apply
> to all sub dirs recursively.   The next project I want to move to
> svn
> is much larger and has many nested directories

If you ignore a directory everything it contains will be ignored.

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