svn ignore a file but include it in checkout

Question

I have a project in a repository. People will soon start checking it out, working on it, then committing their changes back. But there is one file within that project (an

Answer 1

You could modify your project to create a preset version of the file if it doesn't exist.

The file would then not be in SVN at all, and every client would get it the first time they run the code.

The feasibility of this depends on how your project works and where you can put executable code.