Fictitious Nonsense » Subversion http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com & Wasted Ink Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:33:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Subversion, git, and ignoring files http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/5 http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/5#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 19:46:42 +0000 varikin http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/5 So I have been an SVN user for about 3 years and loved it. I had used CVS before that for a couple years. I never had an issue with it, but all the hype was SVN, so I tried it and liked it. But, there was one thing that always bothered me. How to ignore files. I don’t want to see all my .o files and everything under my build directory when I run svn status. Well to do that you need to specifiy the svn:ignore property on each directory using the propset command and the propget command. It seemed tedious, and painful. I longed for the ignore file from CVS.

Today, I was looking at Git and lo and behold, it has a .gitignore file that I can add files, folders and typeglobs too. It is recursive too! No more setting some property that I have to lookup every time I add a new directory. Today I am switching to git!

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