Subversion Tips & Tricks

Create a file (.svnignore) with the regular expressions

*.pyc
*~

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

mkdir external
svn pe svn:externals external

add local and remote dir (as for example)

 django  http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django