I don't want any directory named build or dist to go into my SVN no matter how deep in the tree it is.
Is this possible? In git I just put
build
dist
in my .gitignore at the root and it recursively ignores. How do I do this with svn? Please don't tell me to do a propset on every parent dir...
svn propset takes --recursive as an option, so you can do this, with two downsides:
svn:ignore property whenever you add a new directoryadd to your ~/.subversion/config or /etc/subversion/config file:
[miscellany]
global-ignores = build dist
In order to ignore all such files in all repositories, you could add a global-ignores to your per-user configuration file.
On Unix-like systems, this area appears as a directory named .subversion in the user's home directory. On Win32 systems, Subversion creates a folder named Subversion, typically inside the Application Data area of the user's profile directory
Unfortunately, there's no per-repository option to do this. It's basically per-user, or per-directory, so the multiple svn:ignores is probably the way to go, as annoying as it can be.