I work in a massively shared code base. And while synchronizing my working copy with the repository, I have a ton of unwanted files showing up.
If I ignore a file or directory with svn:ignore, does that get propagated to the repository? Or is it limited to my local working copy?
I have Googled for a specific answer and read through subversion documentation, but no success. Am I missing something obvious there?
svn:ignore is a property, and properties are propagated to repository:
In addition to versioning your directories and files, Subversion provides interfaces for adding, modifying, and removing versioned metadata on each of your versioned directories and files. We refer to this metadata as properties, and they can be thought of as two-column tables that map property names to arbitrary values attached to each item in your working copy. Generally speaking, the names and values of the properties can be whatever you want them to be, with the constraint that the names must contain only ASCII characters. And the best part about these properties is that they, too, are versioned, just like the textual contents of your files. You can modify, commit, and revert property changes as easily as you can file content changes. And the sending and receiving of property changes occurs as part of your typical commit and update operations—you don't have to change your basic processes to accommodate them.
