svnignore

I would like TortoiseSVN (1.5.3) to ignore certain folders, their contents and certain other files wherever they might appear in my directory hierarchy but I cannot get the global ignore string right. Whatever I do, it either adds to much or ignores too much What is the correct 'Global ignore pattern' to ignore.... Folders : bin obj release compile Files : *.bak *.user *.suo Update: To help clarify... yes I am using this on windows. Currently I have the following in my Global Ignore Pattern: bin obj CVS .cvsignore *.user *.suo Debug Release .pdb test. Thumbs.db Works really well to ignore

I've recently started working on various C# projects in Visual Studio as part of a plan for a large scale system that will be used to replace our current system that's built from a cobbling-together of various programs and scripts written in C and Perl. The projects I'm now working on have reached critical mass for being committed to subversion. I was wondering what should and should not be committed to the repository for Visual Studio projects. I know that it's going to generate various files that are just build-artifacts and don't really need to be committed, and I was wondering if anybody