ignoring a directory named spool

[Phil Dyer <ph...@dyermaker.org>]

I have source tree that has a directory in it named "spool". I'd like to
 ignore this directory using global-ignores or svn:ignore, but I'm not
having any luck.

The spool directory in the tree makes it hard to ignore file patterns,
so global-ignores seems to be out. It contains a lot of files with
timestamp suffixes and such.   And when I try:

svn propset svn:ignore spool

I get

svn: Explicit target required ('spool' interpreted as prop value)

clue bat, please.

phil

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Re: ignoring a directory named spool

[Steve Williams <st...@kromestudios.com>]

>> Try this
>> svn propset svn:ignore "yes" spool
>
> Um... no. The value of svn:ignore is the list of file patterns to
> ignore. See:

Aiee.. brain fart on my part.  I got muddled up with another recent
message that had the same error message where they had forgotten to put in
the path when setting a property.

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Sly



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Re: ignoring a directory named spool

[Phil Dyer <ph...@dyermaker.org>]

Ryan Schmidt wrote on 3/6/2006 4:26 AM:
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 01:09, Steve Williams wrote:

>> The biggest clue-bat is to try "svn help propset".  This will tell  
>> you, along with the above error message, that you omitted to  
>> provide a value for the property, so it is taking "spool" to the  
>> property value, and therefore there is no path provided.
>>
>> Try this
>> svn propset svn:ignore "yes" spool
> 
> Um... no. The value of svn:ignore is the list of file patterns to  
> ignore. See:
> 

[snip]...

Thanks, Ryan! You explained it perfectly.

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Re: ignoring a directory named spool

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 01:09, Steve Williams wrote:

>> I have source tree that has a directory in it named "spool". I'd  
>> like to
>> ignore this directory using global-ignores or svn:ignore, but I'm not
>> having any luck.
>>
>> The spool directory in the tree makes it hard to ignore file  
>> patterns,
>> so global-ignores seems to be out. It contains a lot of files with
>> timestamp suffixes and such.   And when I try:
>>
>> svn propset svn:ignore spool
>>
>> I get
>>
>> svn: Explicit target required ('spool' interpreted as prop value)
>>
>> clue bat, please.
>
> The biggest clue-bat is to try "svn help propset".  This will tell  
> you, along with the above error message, that you omitted to  
> provide a value for the property, so it is taking "spool" to the  
> property value, and therefore there is no path provided.
>
> Try this
> svn propset svn:ignore "yes" spool

Um... no. The value of svn:ignore is the list of file patterns to  
ignore. See:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.3.3

So you have two options, depending on whether you want the spool  
directory itself to be in version control and have its contents  
ignored, or whether you want the directory itself ignored as well.

If you want the former, create the directory, add it, then set the  
svn:ignore property of that directory to '*' to ignore everything in it.

$ svn mkdir spool
$ svn propset svn:ignore '*' spool
$ svn ci -m 'Adding "spool" and ignoring its contents.'

If you want the latter, do not add the directory, but rather set the  
svn:ignore property of the parent directory to 'spool'.

$ mkdir spool
$ svn propset svn:ignore 'spool' .
$ svn ci -m 'Ignoring a directory called "spool".'

If you had already added the spool directory but now realize you did  
not want to, but want to preserve its contents, you can fix it this way:

$ svn export spool spool-tmp
$ svn rm spool
$ svn ci -m 'Removing inadvertently added directory "spool".'
$ mv spool-tmp spool
$ svn propset svn:ignore 'spool' .
$ svn ci -m 'Ignoring a directory called "spool".'




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Re: ignoring a directory named spool

[Steve Williams <st...@kromestudios.com>]

Phil Dyer wrote:

>I have source tree that has a directory in it named "spool". I'd like to
> ignore this directory using global-ignores or svn:ignore, but I'm not
>having any luck.
>
>The spool directory in the tree makes it hard to ignore file patterns,
>so global-ignores seems to be out. It contains a lot of files with
>timestamp suffixes and such.   And when I try:
>
>svn propset svn:ignore spool
>
>I get
>
>svn: Explicit target required ('spool' interpreted as prop value)
>
>clue bat, please.
>  
>

The biggest clue-bat is to try "svn help propset".  This will tell you, 
along with the above error message, that you omitted to provide a value 
for the property, so it is taking "spool" to the property value, and 
therefore there is no path provided.

Try this
svn propset svn:ignore "yes" spool

-- 
Sly



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