On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:26, Geoff Hoffman <ghoff...@cardinalpath.com> wrote: > I ran into an unexpected behavior with svn:ignore today and wanted to see if > someone can verify whether this is a bug (in the current version) or just an > aspect of how Subversion works. We're still on 1.6x. > > Given a tree with > > trunk > + cache > + htdocs > + logs > + system > > I have tried putting > > cd trunk > svn propset svn:ignore logs/* . > > ...ignore everything in the logs directory, but the svn:ignore propset is on > trunk. > This doesn't work -- that is, log files are not ignored as expected, but > shown as new files when running the project and svn status > > However, > > cd logs > svn propset svn:ignore * . > > ...setting svn:ignore * on logs, works.
In the first example, your shell is expanding "logs/*" to a list of all the items in that directory, and svn dutifully sets the property on the current directory (.) to that (very long) value.
