How to ignore directories/files in Subversion?

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How to setup my Subversion so it ignores target files generated by Maven on Linux? I don't want to commit them into SVN.

How do I do this on Linux and Mac command line?

right.. how do I set that up so the comment does not checkin my target — techsjs2012, Jan 15 '13 at 20:56
what have you tried? Have you read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116074/how-to-ignore-a-directory-with-svn? — tucuxi, Jan 15 '13 at 20:56

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '13 at 14:54

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To ignore files in subversion you want to set the svn:ignore property. You can see more here http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html about half way down.

To ignore the target folder from your project folder run

svn propset svn:ignore target .

Alternatively to edit a list of ignored files folders run

svn propedit svn:ignore .

edited Dec 10 '13 at 14:54

bahrep

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answered Jan 15 '13 at 21:00

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score 10 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 04 '15 at 15:50

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Before committing code to the Subversion repository we always set the svn:ignore property on the directory to prevent some files and directories to be checked in. We always exclude the IDE project files and the target/ directory. Instead of keeping all of the excludes in mind all the time it's useful to put them all in a file and reference the file with the -F option:

svn propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore .

Put this file in the project folder

.svnignore
target/*

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answered Jan 15 '13 at 21:18

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can you give me a list of files you added – techsjs2012 Jan 16 '13 at 14:28
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is there one file in root of project (/.svnignore ) or we must set it for each Subproject in svn ? – issamux Aug 13 '14 at 10:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 15 '13 at 20:57

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Use svn propset:

svn propset svn:ignore directory .

answered Jan 15 '13 at 20:57

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '13 at 14:42

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I find a simple way that you can add it to svn:ignore in eclipse IDE after adding the target folder to revision and then restoring it.

answered Dec 10 '13 at 14:42

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If you use eclipse you should add the folder to "ignored resources" (window > preferences > team > ignore resources)! – Grim Jun 15 '16 at 09:04

How to ignore directories/files in Subversion?

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