Svn Status -u and ignore files from specific directory

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i am running a command SVN STATUS -U, and now i want it to bring all the changes except /temporary folder. I don't have any idea how can i do this? Because i don't want to see all entries of /temporary folder when i run svn status -u (hundreds of files added in temp directory on server, and it brings lot of entries when executing the command)

I am using putty after logging via SSH.

possible duplicate of [How to ignore a directory with SVN?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116074/how-to-ignore-a-directory-with-svn) — wilx, Feb 12 '14 at 07:07
But better solution will be ignore all content of folder with svn:ignore **AND** unversion already versioned /temporary shit — Lazy Badger, Feb 12 '14 at 09:56

Michael Schlottke-Lakemper · Answer 1 · 2014-02-12T07:41:10.493

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You could add the files in /temporary to the svn:ignore property of /temporary:

svn propset svn:ignore "*" path/to/temporary

That, however, will also keep the files in /temporary from being tracked by svn (they are ignored, after all), so if this is not what you want, please be more specific.

edited Feb 12 '14 at 07:41

answered Feb 12 '14 at 07:07

Michael Schlottke-Lakemper

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i executed this and get this error, [root@server latest]# svn propset svn:ignore "*" /temporary svn: warning: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale svn: warning: environment variable LC_CTYPE is UTF-8 svn: warning: please check that your locale name is correct svn: '/' is not a working copy – Syed ADnan Feb 12 '14 at 07:32
You need to provide the actual path to the `/temporary` directory in your working copy/repository. If you just write `/temporary` it will look for a folder named `temporary` at the root of your filesystem! – Michael Schlottke-Lakemper Feb 12 '14 at 07:42
Ok i executed this command: svn propset svn:ignore "*" /var/www/vhosts/abc/latest/temporary and it shows me this output property 'svn:ignore' set on '/var/www/vhosts/abc/latest/temporary' but when i executed svn status -u, it again showing me entries from /temporary direcotry – Syed ADnan Feb 12 '14 at 08:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '14 at 21:18

Yes, Sometimes it is desirable to have files that reside in a repository that you do not want overwritten in your workspace in a similar fashion to the way Subversion can ignore files that you commit. Config files with your local settings are an example where you would want files ignored during updates.

Subversion does not have this feature. The answers that "work" that I have seen over the years are:

write a script that updates the individual files and/or directories and ignores the files and/or directories that you want left alone (tedious)
remove the files or directories from subversion and then obviously they are not there to overwrite your files (seems sketchy to me)

Mark

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