SVN ignore like .gitignore

Question

In Git, if I have a project with lots of projects inside, let's suppose, a lot of Java projects, I can just create a .gitignore file in the root and it will "be respected" in the entire repository.

How can I do this for an SVN project?

For example, how can I make an "svn ignore" setup (via cmd line) for a .gitignore like the following?

*.class
*.jar
*.war
*.ear
target/
.classpath
.settings/
.project
.metadata
bin/

The most important part of the question: How can I make it work to new folders inside the root? Example:

I ran svn propset svn:ignore "*.class" . -R in my root and commit. Ok:

root
- folder1/
-- *.class (ignored)
-- other files (ok)
- folder2/
-- *.class (ignored)
-- other files (ok)

Now, I create folder 3. The previous svn:ignore settings will not apply, right? Is there a way to make it so?

Answer 1

I solved this problem a slightly different way. This will only work if you're using a Bash shell and have Perl installed, but that's pretty much every Mac and Linux machine.

Add the following to your .bashrc and .bash_profile files:

alias _ss="svn status | egrep -v '`cat .svnignore|perl -p -e 's/\n/|/'`'"

Don't forget to either restart your terminal or do:

source ~/.bashrc
(or .bash_profile if that's what you used)

Now create a file called .svnignore, and put it in the directory where your repository is checked out.

files/to/ignore
another/file
tmp
node_modules

Now when you run

_ss

in the root directory of your working copy, it will read the .svnignore file and ignore anything in it.

I version the .svnignore file the same way I would version a .gitignore file.

NOTE: This only affects the svn status command, and it won't prevent you from adding/committing ignored files.

Answer 2

You can use svn:ignore. You generally need to tell SVN to apply special properties to the files:

svn propset svn:ignore "*.jpg" .

(Note the dot at the end of the command.)

For multiple files you can add a newline character.

Type exactly like here with line breaks:

svn propset svn:ignore "file1
file2
file3" dir1

Check that the files are ignored:

svn status --no-ignore

Then commit the code.

And yes, many duplicate questions are already available.

You can refer my favorite svn cheatguide.

You can create a file, svn-ignore.txt, with your ignored files and directories:

*.class
*.jar
*.war
*.ear
 target/
.classpath
.settings/
.project
.metadata
 bin/

Now try the following:

svn propset svn:ignore -RF /root/svn-ignore.txt . [dot for current dir]

-R is for recursive.