[pmwiki-users] Re: Subversion & existing installation

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:36:53PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> However, there is a minor annoyance right now when it comes to checking
> the status of the files. Since I have a few extra directories [*], I
> modified svn:ignore to ignore these, but now I get the following annoying
> status result:
> 
> 	svn status
> 	 M     .
> 	 M     local
> 
> I assume this is because svn:ignore is a versioned property... any clues
> on how to get svn to not report '.' and 'local' as modified?  (Adding '.'
> to 'svn:ignore' doesn't strike me as a brilliant idea...:-)
> 
> [*] The extra directories are there because it's a farm installation. As 
> for local/, that's because I added 'farmmap.txt'.

The 'M' in the second column indicates that you've modified
the properties on these entries (as opposed to having modified
the entries themselves).  If you'll tell me what svn:ignore
properties you added, I may be able to add similar ones into the
repository.

I don't think it would be a problem at all for me to set svn:ignore
to '*' for the . directory.  I think I've already done
that for pub/skins/ and cookbook/ and it doesn't seem to pose
any difficulty.

Also, note that unless you're modifying PmWiki's distribution files
somehow, "svn status" isn't going to show much in the way of useful
information unless the "--show-updates" flag is also given.

Pm