SVN just won't ignore a folder, despite propset svn:ignore

Question

Take folder files, inside an SVN working copy, running in Linux. The folder was set to be ignored, with the commands:

• svn propset svn:ignore * \'fil

Answer 1

How are you testing it? If you

svn commit files

Then the ignore isn't checked. If you svn commit ., then the automatic behavior of Subversion will ignore it. (This confused me at one point, too. Subversion assumes you're smarter than the svn:ignore.)