Ah. Yes, my approach is the sledgehammer and yours is the flyswatter. Given the 
desire to check in a single .a file I would guess the flyswatter is much more 
appropriate. I am glad to have learned of the flyswatter myself.

Thanks,

Rob


On Jun 1, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Kieren wrote:

> Alternatively you can see  all the ignored items in a given "working copy" 
> folder by choosing the view menu then "show ignored items" 
> You will then see all the ignored items including .a files .DSstore etc
> Then right click the item you want and choose add then do your commit and 
> your fille will be in the repo.
> then you can hide the ignored items again
> 
> Took me a while with this too ;)
> 
> HTH
> 
> Kieren
> On 02/06/2010, at 1:38 PM, Rob Rye wrote:
> 
>> The problem is almost certainly outside of Versions purview. Your 
>> global-ignores list, which is not accessible from within Version (or any 
>> other subversion GUI I know of) almost certainly includes *.a (that is true 
>> by default on my machine anyway)
>> 
>> To check, go to the config file for your username for subversion In your 
>> home directory:
>> 
>> ~/.subversion/config (i.e. /Users/yourusername/.subverison/config)
>> 
>> Because the folder name starts with "." the folder .subverison is hidden. 
>> 
>> It can be accessed most easily via the terminal (I use emacs, but you could 
>> use vi, and you can do the same thing in TextWrangler, BBEdit, or any other 
>> GUI that can see hidden files):
>> 
>> 1) cd ~/.subversion
>> 
>> 2) emacs config
>> 
>> 1a) (or simply type: emacs ~/.subversion/config)
>> 
>> 3) scroll down to line 94 or so (the exact line number may vary depending on 
>> your OS version etc. for all I know). You should find a line that starts
>> 
>>      global-ignores
>> 
>> If this line is uncommented, then subversion will, by default ignore .a 
>> files. This is true not just for Versions but for all interfaces for 
>> subversion by default on Macs, so far as I know. 
>> 
>> 4) To enable subversion to see .a files simply remove the entry for 
>> 
>>      *.a
>> 
>> from the global-ignores list and save. You may need to restart Versions or 
>> simply hit Update to alert it to the change in the global-ignores list but 
>> this should do the trick.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Hardy Macia wrote:
>> 
>>> Does  Versions ignore all .a files?  I'm trying to add libAdMob.a to my svn 
>>> on beanstalkapp.com, but it keeps disappearing….or I thought it did. It 
>>> seems that Versions ignores the .a file and therefore never adds it to the 
>>> SVN. 
>>> 
>>> I checked the ignore list and libAdMob.a isn't being ignored.
>>> If I change the name to zlibAdMob.a Versions still doesn't see it.
>>> If I change the name to libAdMob.b then Versions sees it.
>>> 
>>> How to I get the .a file checked in, or is there a setting in Versions that 
>>> I can flip so it will check in this file?
>>> 
>>> -- Hardy
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