svn propget svn:ignore . returns nothing, but svn is obviously ignoring my files
svn, svnignore
Solution
New day. Clear head.
Thanks for the help, it certainly lead me in the right direction.
The answer is there is a default global-ignore list that is built into subversion itself, not the config files, which was where the *.a ignore was coming from.
The global ignores in my config file looked like this:
#global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo
# *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store
I figured this was fine, because I didn't want to ignore anything. I was wrong because then subversion enforces its scarcely documented default global-ignores. I changed it to this, note the exclusion of '*.a'
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.pyc *.pyo
*.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store
At this point *.a files are no longer ignores, and my .DS_Store file is still ignored, and all is right in my world.
As GraemeF suggested, propget does not retrieve global values for svn:ignore. As Ether suggested, you can add ignored files by naming them explicitly.
The best link I found was here: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-02/0725.shtml
This post says to me that there is a non-empty default value for global-ignores that is used if global-ignores is not set in the config file.
Problem
I'm trying to add an existing iPhone project to a subversion account on unfuddle.com. Everything seems smooth except for some .a files which are ignored. I know they are ignored because I don't see them in svn status unless I use the --no-ignore flag. When I run ``` svn propget svn:ignore . ``` I get no output. To make sure I wasn't crazy I ran ``` svn propget --xml svn:ignore . ``` and get this ``` <?xml version="1.0"?> <properties> </properties> ``` Which means there are no entries in the ignore property? How do I find where this ignore is coming from?