[SvnBook] #25: improve svn:ignore description
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Tue Aug 15 12:49:46 CDT 2006
#25: improve svn:ignore description
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Reporter: sussman | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 1.3
Component: content | Version:
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From an email exchange:
I totally agree. The first sentence of the section in our book is
"The svn:ignore property contains a list of file patterns which
certain Subversion operations will ignore." Sure, if you keep reading
the whole section, it goes into a detailed example of how 'svn status'
will ignore patterns you set, and then at the very end, it mentions
that 'svn add' and 'svn import' honor the ignores as well.
But from years of #svn and users@ experience, let me say that this is
one of the top-5-all-time newbie confusions: everyone thinks that
svn:ignore means "this versioned thing won't get committed". I think
we need to make the book section more like the FAQ, and say *right* at
the beginning that it only affects unversioned files.
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