On 12/01/2010 03:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 1, 2010, at 15:19, Steve Cohen wrote:
It seems to me that
svn --recursive propset svn:ignore xyz
is basically just syntactic sugar for manually going through issuing
svn propset svn:ignore xyz
on every node of the directory structure, It is syntactic sugar in the sense that the
end product in either case would be the same. There is no "recursive" data
attribute in a project's svn:ignore tree.
Yes, that's right.
Which leads me to think that a one-time shell script or python script or
whatever might be written to walk the directory tree, look for all the
executable files and manually add them to that directory's svn:ignore list.
That should work.
The other approach that initially occurred to me was to clean the directory so there are no unversioned files
("make clean" perhaps), then build the software ("make"), then copy the output of "svn
status" into an editor and massage it a bit to turn it into something you can hand to "svn propset svn:ignore
--file". Though this would have to be done on a per-directory basis, so if there are many directories involved
this may be impractical and a script as you suggest may do better.
Thanks for confirming, this should work, but one more question.
I've already got some other files in svn:ignore in each directory.
There is no command to append a name to the svn:ignore property. So my
script would have to call
svn propget svn:ignore
and then
svn propset svn:ignore
appending the list, right?
