Is there a way to make TortoiseSVN temporarily ignore versioned files?

Question

We have certain configuration files which we want to be in version control as they specify project\'s default settings: search path, conditional defines etc. Unfortunately t

Answer 1

The general solution to allowing local modifications to version-controlled configuration files is not to keep the config file itself under version control, but to version a template of it, e.g. with .template appended to the filename.

The first time a developer checks out the project, they make a copy of this file, removing the .template from the filename of the copy. Then they add the copy (the non-template) to the ignore list to ensure it is not accidentally added or committed.

Any changes that are made to the config which need to go into version control, must be made to the template. And each time a developer updates and finds a change in the template, they must again follow the copy/rename procedure. But hopefully this will not be often.