Craig I would rather use a more restricted pattern.
$ svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/ I want 'svn st' to let me know if something different than a log file exists in the log/ folder -- Aníbal Rojas http://hasmanydevelopers.com http://rubycorner.com http://anibal.rojas.com.ve On Jul 4, 9:30 am, "Craig Demyanovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You want to keep the log directory, because rails needs it to run. > What you want to do is ignore any files in the log directory. > > Your project must already be tracked by svn in order to ignore files. > Assuming it is, first, remove any files in the log directory and > commit. > > $ svn rm log/* > $ svn ci -m "removing log files" > > Second, ignore any files in the log directory and commit. > > $ svn propset svn:ignore "*" log/ > $ svn ci -m "ignoring log files" > > If you ever need to edit an svn property with multiple entries, look > up svn:propedit and the SVN_EDITOR environment variable, which is just > one means of telling svn what text editor to invoke when you run > svn:propedit (and other commands). > > Now, if your project is not yet tracked by svn, then remove any files > in the log directory, import the project, set svn:ignore on the log > directory as we did earlier and commit. > > By the way, the reason that I like to include the empty log directory > in svn is so that other developers can just checkout the code and get > to work; there's no little step of remembering to create the log dir. > I used to do the same for the tmp dir as I described for the log dir, > but Rails 2.1 creates the tmp dir if doesn't already exist. > > Regards, > Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---