[KLUG Members] remove a directory from subversion repository

[Dirk H Bartley]

Actually I would argue the other way.  Learning to accomplish this task
and other tasks require large quantities of prerequisite knowledge that
we humans take for granted.  One thread long ago with Adam and myself we
started listing concepts that one would have to understand ahead of time
to get "it" in a particular situation and the list was quite long for
something that seemed basic at the time.

The only subversion specific information that seems to may not have been
grasped was connecting was svn:ignore property was really a regular
expression to change the behavior of subversion's <emphasis> client
</emphasis>.  For instance svn propset svn:ignore "text" is really
saying to the client 'ignore any file (or the special case of a file as
a directory) that starts with "text"'.  Notice the starts with which
means that the subversion authors could have required the regex "$text"
but it was sooooooo obvious that people are always interested in the way
the file starts.  I'm not sure but I should experiment with that just to
see if it works.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/book.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.3.3

OOoo kewl.  The client can be run 'svn status --no-ignore' and you can
still see what is being ignored.

In my opinion the guru community often times not account for what people
may not be understanding because of the "sooooo obvious" principal.  The
context is always critical.  Everything is clear if known.  

The theory of relativity is soooooooo obvious. NOT!!!

Dirk

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:20, Richard Harding wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:40, Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> > I may be misunderstanding the problem. 
> > 
> > Try this: first move the files you do not want in the repos from your
> > 
> > Dirk
> 
> Man, one of those I feel so stupid moments. Yea, that did the trick.
> Talk about something that should have been an obvious try. Sorry about
> that. Thanks for the help. 
> 
> Rick