Recursively ignoring files in the entire source tree in subversion

Question

I am not new to Subversion, but I have up till now used Tortoise and never the commadn line. My question is, how do I ignore all files like *.o from the ENTIRE source not j

Answer 1

As pointed by @hackmaster.a in a comment, the example given in the accepted answer has the side effect of wiping out all previous svn:ignore settings. Using propedit instead of propset doesn't work neither.

The right way to add multiple files recursively is putting their names in a list separated by new lines in the svn:ignore property set with svn propset svn:ignore "[LIST]" .

For example:

    svn propset svn:ignore -R "*.pkl
    > *.class
    > Thumbs.db
    > data.tmp" .

Of course the >'s are just the shell prompts.

This command will change the svn:ignore properties of the . current directory and of each of its sub-folders recursively.