On 27.11.2019 12:25, Krzysztof Siewiorek wrote: > Hi! > We've started to move from Perforce to SVN in my company for some > reasons. We moved quite a few big projects that we have or we had been > working in the past. Working with perforce for years gave us quite a > big and precise ignore rules list. The problem is that SVN's approach > to that does not quite scale up and also makes managing ignored files > a pain - especially when working on many projects in same time. > I was trying to dig for some piece of information, why actually SVN > doesn't have implemented something simillar to GIT's or Perforce's > ignore file that contains extended rules including full directories in > the rules, !mark to not apply the rules for some files/dir, and so on. > I would love to hear what's the official statement on that problem. I > see that there is quite a few people out there struggling with the > same issues. Usually everybody end up with something like own > .svnignore file, small app and a bunch of hooks triggered all the time.
The official statement is that no-one has implemented something like that. We're all volunteers here, and contributions are welcome. If everyone who built a custom solution had taken the time to contribute to Subversion instead, it would probably have been done years ago. -- Brane
