Friday, May 1, 2015

TortoiseSVN: recursively exclude bin, obj folders and other meta files from committing to SVN server

Suppose you use TortoiseSVN as SVN client and have a large project which contains many sub projects, and you want to exclude committing the "bin", "obj" folders to the SVN server, you can add a global ignore pattern to the root folder of the project by right-clicking the folder and selecting "Tortoise SVN --> properties" and add in a global ignore pattern such as in the following figure (remember to check the "Apply property recursively" if it is the first time to do so).