Telling Versions.app to ignore certain svn files/folders

Question

I'm using Versions & Beanstalk for svn. My app has some log files stored within a subfolder - how can I tell Versions to skip these when committing? I know it has something to do with svn:ignore, but surely there's a way to do this within the GUI?

Answer 1

There are two ways to do this within Versions:

1. The easy way: While you browse your working copy, control+click on the file or folder and select “Ignore "filename.txt"”. You can find the same option under the “Action” menu. — To do this, a file can't already be under version control, so if it is, “Delete” it first...

2. The more versatile way: Select the folder that the files/folders you want to ignore live in, and show the inspector (“Inspector” button in toolbar), click “Edit” under the “Ignore” box. In the sheet that opens up, enter file names, or patterns (the same kind of patterns as you'd use in the Terminal, not regular expressions or anything fancy) and hit OK.

e.g. to ignore all zip files and a directory named “build”, enter this in the Ignore properties of the folder directly above them:

*.zip
build

Finally, there's also such a thing as global ignores (that are used for all of your working copies), but Versions doesn't have a UI to configure those right now, search for “global-ignores” on this (humongous) page for more about that topic.

Cheers, Dirk

PS: Check out the Versions google group, and for support questions you can always get in touch with us as well (I'm one of the developers).