Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting the Subversion ignore property

If you are using Subversion for version control, you will need to keep most of the projects in the repository; however, some files and directories should only stay locally and not be tracked.

Getting ready

Make sure that your Django project is under the Subversion version control.

How to do it…

Open your command-line tool and set your default editor as nano, vi, vim or any other that you prefer, as follows:

$ export EDITOR=nano

Tip

If you don't have a preference, I would recommend using nano, which is very intuitive and a simple text editor for the terminal.

Then, go to your project directory and type the following command:

$ svn propedit svn:ignore myproject

This will open a temporary file in the editor, where ...