svn add command not keying off svn:ignore value

[Dave Hotchkiss <da...@supercomputerinc.com>]

In my development environment, I have lots of files that I want
Subversion to ignore when I add additional files.  According to the
Subversion book, I *should* be able to do so via the svn:ignore
property.  In the section on the svn:ignore property, it discusses it
in reference to the 'svn status' command and then states the following:

| The list of patterns to ignore is also used by svn add and
| svn import. Both of these operations involve asking Subversion to
| begin managing some set of files and directories. Rather than force
| the user to pick and choose which files in a tree she wishes to start
| versioning, Subversion uses the ignore patterns to determine which
| files should not be swept into the version control system as part of
| a larger recursive addition or import operation.

When I set the svn:ignore property recursively on my directories, it
does affect the output of the 'svn status' command as it should.
Unfortunately, though, it does NOT affect the 'svn add' command when I
try to make it work:


| $ ls -R
| .:
| samplefile.c  samplefile.suo  test-subfolder
|
| ./test-subfolder:
| samplefile2.c  samplefile2.suo
|
| $ svn propget svn:ignore -R .
| . - *.suo
|
| test-subfolder - *.suo
|
|
| $ svn status
| ?      samplefile.c
| ?      test-subfolder\samplefile2.c
|
| $ svn status --no-ignore
| ?      samplefile.c
| I      samplefile.suo
| ?      test-subfolder\samplefile2.c
| I      test-subfolder\samplefile2.suo
|
| $ svn add --force .
| A         samplefile.c
| A         samplefile.suo
| A         test-subfolder\samplefile2.c
| A         test-subfolder\samplefile2.suo
|

Any ideas on this?  I did find another post on this problem, but no one
has replied:  http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-11/0105.shtml

Thanks very much!

-- 
Dave


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Re: svn add command not keying off svn:ignore value

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Dave Hotchkiss wrote:

> | $ svn add --force .
> | A         samplefile.c
> | A         samplefile.suo
> | A         test-subfolder\samplefile2.c
> | A         test-subfolder\samplefile2.suo
> |
>

Hmmm, the --force option was added to 'svn add' in svn 1.1, in order to 
make it recurse into versioned directories.  But it looks like you've 
discovered a genuine bug in this behavior.  Can you file your recipe as 
a new issue?


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