Adding a directory to subversion, and ignoring the directory contents

by Joaquin Lippincott, President & Founder

Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. The /sites/default/files/ directory within Drupal is a perfect example. Here's how:

Add the directory, while ignoring all of the files it contains:
svn add -N [directory]
After adding the directory enter the directory and run the following command:
svn propset svn:ignore '*.*' .
Commit your changes:
svn commit -m "Added the directory and set the files within it to be ignored"

All better now...!

Comments

Hi there, Would you happen to

Posted by Besnique on June 21, 2010. [Reply]

Hi there,

Would you happen to know how to svn add a directory that contains blank spaces in its title? For example:

svn add User accounts

where 'User accounts' is the directory title.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Besnique

thanks

Posted by Conor on January 13, 2012. [Reply]

this is exactly what i was looking for, thanks

You can also use --depth=empty

Posted by Ari on March 26, 2012. [Reply]

This didn't work for me. I ended up using:
svn add dirname --depth=empty

This doesn't cover sub

Posted by rooby on June 12, 2012. [Reply]

This doesn't cover sub directories inside the directory. For that you need svn propset svn:ignore '*' .