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Why isn't SVN respecting my svn:ignore file?

I'm using Mac 10.9.5 and SVN 1.7.9 (r1462340). On my termianl I enter

svn propedit svn:ignore .

Within this file, I have a line that reads

src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib

However, when I execute "svn status" from the command line, it lists files like so ...

?       src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/spring-webmvc-3.2.11.RELEASE.jar

This file occurs in a direcotry I'd like to ignore. What is the right way to get SVN to ignore all file within this directory?

Solution

  • svn:ignore only applies to the immediate directory. You will need to put "lib" in the property for the WEB-INF directory.