Every open source program comes with a vital instruction(s) that is (are) deliberately left out of the documentation so as to differentiate the pros from the newbies. In this case the svn documentation doesn't tell you straight out how to exclude files, which means that if you blindly go ahead and import a standard rails directory structure you can end up with massive and entirely useless log files in your repository unless you do something about it.
After much hunting around the net, the documentation, the help lists I've discovered a little talked about, but totally crucial command, svn propset svn:ignore which has the useful comment in the help screens svn:ignore - A newline separated list of file patterns to ignore. Now that clearly tells everything a pro needs, but for a newbie like me leaving out the issue of how to put a newline into a list of file patterns when you're typing from the command line renders the instruction useless. Yes I admit it, I'm a total newbie I can't put a newline into a command line string without hitting the Enter key. Please can someone tell me how to do it. I guess I could create a file of file patterns I want ignored and pipe that in, but it seems a bit excessive. I'm asking it here because it has to be a problem that everyone using rails and svn must have run into. There's virtually nothing about it elsewhere. Thanks John Small -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
