On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:29, Steve Cohen wrote: > I have a need to define a number of svn:ignore patterns in my project. > > Some are specific directories somewhere in my project tree. Others are > particular file types created by a build process such as *.o which may be > found in any number of directories. > > However, the svn propset command only allows the recursive -R switch to be > applied to the entire set of values for the svn:ignore property. Whereas what > is needed is to be able to apply the recursive switch to the VALUE(e.g. *.o), > not the KEY (e.g. svn:ignore). Is there any way of achieving this? There > doesn't appear to be one. Yet without it, svn:ignore is useless, or at least > too cumbersome to be used well.
svn:ignore is not useless; it works fine, but doesn't have the feature you're looking for. However, you can set "*.o" in your global-ignores in your Subversion config file; in fact it should already be there unless you've changed it.
