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Way to ignore files with Surround SCM?

I am using surround SCM with a directory structure that looks like the following:

root/
  src/
    somecode/
  lib/

my working directory looks like this:

root/
  .settings/
  src/
    somecode/
  lib/
  someotherdirectory/
    file.txt

Basically, I don't want surround to report to me if my local copy of .settings (a directory) or file.txt have changed. It seems simple - like an ignore in svn, but I can't seem to find a way to do it with surround. I seem to have a lot of these local files around that don't need to be dealt with by the scm tool I'm using, and I'd prefer them not to show up in my recursive differences screen.

Any thoughts on how I might do this?

Solution

  • Maybe a way to emulate that feature would be to use directory cloaking:

    Cloak repositories to skip them when recursively getting, checking in, checking out, or undoing checked out files. If a user does not work with specific repositories in Surround SCM, cloaking can shorten the time it takes to perform the get, check in, check out, and undo check out commands. It can also save local disk space by reducing cache needs.

    So you could first get that directory, then cloak it.