Exclude .svn folders within git

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I'm trying to exclude subversion's folders from being tracked by git. I tried a couple different setups for .git/info/exclude, but it doesn't seem to work. I would use git-svn, but it's a pain to request access to get that to work, so I'd rather just work around this by excluding the folders.

I want to exclude ".svn/entries"

I've tried adding the following lines to .git/info/exlude: .svn entries .svn/entries entries svn

No matter what I try, .svn entries shows up when I run git status

what do you mean its a pain to request access to get git-svn to work. git-svn just issues svn commands so if you already have SVN access you can use git-svn without anyone upstream knowing at all or needing to change anything — cpjolicoeur, May 04 '09 at 20:29
Access to install things on my work computer. There's a perl module missing, and to ask the admins to make that mod, is just a pain... — johannix, May 04 '09 at 20:33

Jesse Rusak · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-04T20:42:02.473

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I think you want to use a .gitignore file in your top-level directory. This will work if you put ".svn/entries" on a line in that file. You might just put ".svn" instead of ".svn/entries" as well.

EDIT: See comments. If they files are already being tracked by git, they'll always show up in git status.

edited May 04 '09 at 20:42

answered May 04 '09 at 20:31

Jesse Rusak

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I tried this too, and this didn't work. The problem is that each folder has its own .svn/entries. – johannix May 04 '09 at 20:36
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This works for me, even in the presence of one in each folder. Are the entries showing up in `svn status` because you've already asked git to track them? If you've `git add`ed them, they'll show up no matter what. Just `git rm --cached` them and you'll be OK. – Jesse Rusak May 04 '09 at 20:40
There it is. I started by adding all the files in trunk... Good catch Jesse! – johannix May 04 '09 at 20:49
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Not the most elegant thing in the world, but I used the following to recursively strip .svn folders (as per @JesseRusak): `for dir in $(find ./ -type d); do git rm --cached -r $dir/.svn; done;` – hayesgm Oct 10 '11 at 05:17
I just removed all the old .svn directories using this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1294608/308315 – iwasrobbed Dec 22 '12 at 06:12
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ghayes's rule is dangerous and potentially a security issue if someone has placed filenames with commands embedded in them. Or it might just fail because for example a filename has a space in it. I suggest this variant instead: `find ./ -type d -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 git rm --cached -r` – mc0e Sep 30 '13 at 06:20

score 30 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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This thread has the correct answer:

Git - Ignore certain files contained in specific folders

What you really need is:

.svn*

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Jun 07 '11 at 13:31

RoloDMonkey

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score 25 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 22 '13 at 06:28

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Put ".svn" in a ~/.gitexcludes file. Then tell git about it:

echo '.svn' > ~/.gitexcludes
git config --global core.excludesfile "/home/USER_NAME/.gitexcludes"

(Make sure you change USER_NAME so it points to your home directory)

edited Apr 22 '13 at 06:28

ErichBSchulz

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answered May 04 '09 at 20:37

cmcginty

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Casey, I really thought that was going to work...but alas it didn't. This is pretty frustrating. – johannix May 04 '09 at 20:41
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What is the difference between `.gitexcludes` and `.gitignore`? – Ehtesh Choudhury Aug 15 '12 at 22:40
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@Shurane See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10066749/git-excludes-vs-ignores -- excludes are not versioned, ignores are. – Ben Flynn Nov 14 '12 at 21:36
Worked. Note: it should be "~/.gitexcludes" – Yauhen Yakimovich Jul 19 '13 at 12:03

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 19 '12 at 22:30

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This following structure and .gitignore contents worked for me

\.git
\.svn
\.gitignore

.gitignore contents

.svn/
.gitignore

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answered Mar 19 '12 at 15:01

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[Don't tell Git to ignore the `.gitignore`!](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/767147/how-do-i-tell-git-to-ignore-gitignore) – Bengt Jun 23 '13 at 23:22

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 16 '13 at 14:01

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if you want to keep the svn directory.

you may run the following first:

for dir in $(find ./ -type d -name \*.svn); do git rm --cached  -r $dir; done;

and then run echo ".svn" >>.gitignore in the root directory

answered Jan 16 '13 at 14:01

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered May 04 '09 at 20:51

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Do what Casey suggests, except name the file .gitignore and put it in the root of your git repo.

I also like to do a attrib +h .gitignore so it won't show up in my explorer windows.

answered May 04 '09 at 20:51

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 17 '10 at 14:32

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since every versioned folder has a .svn directory you have to put:

*/.svn/*

answered Dec 17 '10 at 14:32

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This doesn't work. It will ignore `src/.svn` and `coolStuff/.svn` but not `src/main/.svn`. – Tyler Jan 20 '11 at 07:42
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for multiple folders the "**/*" is the way to go! than you need two lines in .gitignore: "*/.svn/*" and "**/.svn/*" – nils petersohn Jan 22 '11 at 20:45
for subfolders exclusion use : **/.svn/ – Gweltaz Niquel Aug 30 '18 at 09:20

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