Subversion Ignore Set

[Tonto]

I am trying to set svn:ignore on visual studio 2005 projects and figure out working directories and stuff. I have an svn repository at file:///h:/repository and I make projects with visual studio 2005. I have a limited amount of disk space, and I am trying to really only import project files, executable, and source files into the repository (no debug info). I have an h:/ignore.txt

*.ncp
*.obj
*.opt
*.plg
*.res
*.manifest
*.idb
*.pdb
*.htm
*.ilk

And I try to ignore debug info and import it into the repository on a project which has not been imported before by doing something like this, H:\Test being a non-working copy VC++ 2005 project:

svn propset -R svn:ignore -F H:\Test H:\ignore.txt

And I get that H:\Test is not a working copy.

I don't really get by what it means by a working copy, but I kind of do. What I did was, I tried to make a program which would import the project (svn import), rmdir the project (completely gone, only in repository), and then checkout (svn checkout) the project to make a working copy, and then (svn propset) on that thing I checked out.

Is this even an appropriate solution?

[CornedBee]

I don't really get by what it means by a working copy,

It means exactly that. A "working copy" essentially means that each directory contains a hidden ".svn" subdirectory containing the metainformation. Without that information, subversion cannot do things like checking status, updating, or setting properties. (Actually, you can set properties directly on a subversion URL, but that requires at least that you did an initial import.)

[Tonto]

I know that my problem is not that simple. I simply will not accept it!

Um, I'll report back, because I need to get the problem with the ignoring stuff consistent because what I'm doing is really inconsistent because of spaces in filenames/stuff already existing in repository/as working copy/thing not being ignored for no reason. Maybe I should use something like Tortoise SVN

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[Tonto]

Okay. The problem actually has to do with the import. I read in the subversion book that it does this.

/tmp/myproject/branches/
/tmp/myproject/tags/
/tmp/myproject/trunk/
                     foo.c
                     bar.c
                     Makefile

That it like a project. And then

$ svn import /tmp/myproject file:///path/to/repos/myproject -m "initial import"
Adding         /tmp/myproject/branches
Adding         /tmp/myproject/tags
Adding         /tmp/myproject/trunk
Adding         /tmp/myproject/trunk/foo.c
Adding         /tmp/myproject/trunk/bar.c
Adding         /tmp/myproject/trunk/Makefile
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This is very much like what I would like to do, except mine is like '.......... no you don't'. I have a project "H:\VS2005\Projects\Hello World" and I want to import it. I enter the command:

h:/subversion/bin/svn.exe import "H:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Hello World" "f
ile:///h:/repository/Hello World" -m "Test."

Noting that "h:/repository" is the repository, and I want to put it in it's own directory "h:/repository/Hello World". That command fails with these errors.

svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///h:/repository/Hello%20World'
svn: Can't open file 'h:\repository\Hello World\format': The filename, directory
 name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Yeah, fine. But if I just do

h:/subversion/bin/svn.exe import "H:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Hello World" "f
ile:///h:/repository/" -m "Test."

Then it does not make a directory for the project inside the repository and I get all confused. It will make the tree:

file:///h:/repository/Hello World/
file:///h:/repository/Hello World.ncb
file:///h:/repository/Hello World.sln
file:///h:/repository/Hello World.suo
file:///h:/repository/debug/

When I would rather it be

file:///h:/repository/Hello World/Hello World/
file:///h:/repository/Hello World/Hello World.ncb
file:///h:/repository/Hello World/Hello World.sln
file:///h:/repository/Hello World/Hello World.suo
file:///h:/repository/Hello World/debug/

Like: repository/project_name/files in project. Question mark?

[CornedBee]

Is repository the actual repository you created with svnadmin?

Personally I use one repository per project. If you don't want that, you need to play with your directory structure. In other words:
1) Create a directory "temp" in Projects.
2) Move "Hello World" to Projects.
3) Import temp.
4) Check out "Hello World" so that you have a new "Hello World" in Projects.
5) Move all files that were not in the repository from the old directory to the new.
6) Delete temp and everything it contains.