How to: Ignore all files in a directory (folder) with subversion

By Alastair | February 21, 2007

The ignore command for subversion can be confusing. Ignoring certain files types is pretty easy:

$ svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log

but ignoring folders is tricky and was giving me headaches for a while. I was using file_column (in Rails) to save uploaded photos and whenever I did a svn status I would get a list of all my test uploads:

?      public/photo/filename/106
?      public/photo/filename/116
?      public/photo/filename/126
?      public/photo/filename/117
?      public/photo/filename/127
?      public/photo/filename/128
?      public/photo/filename/129

Which made it hard to find files I wanted to add. Here’s how to ignore a directory:

svn propset svn:ignore "*" public/photo/
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3 Comments

  1. serkanyersen
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 6:26 am | Permalink

    Thank you very much. You made my day

  2. Gaurav
    Posted March 25, 2008 at 4:14 am | Permalink

    Thanks buddy.. it help me lot.

  3. James
    Posted November 19, 2008 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! I’ve been trying to do this for ages and this is the first thing I’ve tried that actually worked :D !

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