Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Tortoise SVN - Ignoring unwanted file check-in

One of the annoyances with Tortoise SVN is keeping away from checking in binaries (*.exe, *.dll etc) and other unwanted files. There is neat trick that can help with this.

> Right-Click on any source controlled file/folder and select Settings. The following window should pop-up:

In the General > Subversion > Global ignore pattern filed enter all the extensions that you want to be ignored. A sample entry would be as follows:
*/bin */obj *.bak *.*scc *.user *.suo *.webinfo bin obj *.dll *.pdb *.exe

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