| 16 | Ignoring Files |
Software development projects are complex beasts. A build tool or IDE will often create temporary files while you are working on development tasks or running a build. These temporary files are usually not useful to anyone else and should not be stored in a Subversion repository. Subversion tries to be helpful, however, and tells you that it doesn’t know about any file that has not been added to the repository. These files will show with a question mark when svn status shows the working copy status and will clutter up the Tortoise and Cornerstone GUIs.
You can instruct Subversion to ignore certain files or directories by editing the svn:ignore property on the directory containing the items you want to ignore. You can find more ...
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