Subclipse svn:ignore

Question

I\'m new to Eclipse. I\'m using subclipse for connecting to my SVN. There are some folders and files I would like to add to svn:ignore, but it\'s grayed out. Is there an e

Answer 1

It seems Subclipse only allows you to add a top-level folder to ignore list and not any sub folders under it. Not sure why it works this way. However, I found out by trial and error that if you directly add a sub-folder to version control, then it will allow you to add another folder at the same level to the ignore list.

For example, refer fig above, when I wanted to ignore the webapp folder without adding src, subclipse was not allowing me to do so. But when I added the java folder to version control, the "add to svn:ignore..." was enabled for webapp.