====== Subversion Tips & Tricks ======

===== Ignore .pyc files in Subversion =====

Create a file (.svnignore) with the regular expressions

<code |h .svnignore>
*.pyc
*~
</code>

Run svn propset on the project

   svn -R propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore .

   * **-R** indicates that you are doing this recursively so all the directories ignore these.
   * **-F** indicates the file we just created with the regular expressions.

If you’ve already got yourself into the mess of versioning your compiled files, then you might want to do a few things.
   * Revert all the .pyc files (you can always recompile them). You don’t want there to be any local changes when you try to delete them:

   find -name "*.pyc" -exec svn revert {} \;

   * Delete all the .pyc files using `svn delete`:

   find -name "*.pyc" -exec svn delete {} \;

   * Finally recompile and re-run the svn ignore code above

===== Adding external SVN repo into yours =====

<code>
mkdir external
svn pe svn:externals external
</code>

add local and remote dir (as for example)
   django  http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django