svn:ignore

I have a build which produces some extra files (not to be checked in).
Every time a do a build, svn shows these files as non versioned, new files and I have to ignore them.

Enter -

svn propset svn:ignore

. Here is how it worked for me :

prompt> svn status
?       test.log
?       test.log.1
..... (other src code)

Look at those test.log entries - my test case generated them and I'm least bothered to delete them. However, it corrupts my svn status output :-)

So will create an ignore file :

prompt> cat ifile
test*

and ask svn to ignore these file patterns :

prompt> svn propset -R svn:ignore --file ifile .
prompt> svn status
M      .
M      src
M      src/test
... (other src code)

There - the test.log entries no longer show up in svn status

prompt> svn commit

Detailed reading on svn property set : http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html