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| <H1 CLASS="Head">Authoring the CVS .cvsignore file</H1> |
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| <P>When committing resources, often there are resources that you do not want to |
| add to version control. One way you can do this is by using the CVS "ignore" |
| facility, which reads the contents of the file <i>.cvsignore</i> to determine |
| what to ignore.</P> |
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| <P>The <i>.cvsignore</i> file can be added to any directory of a project. Many |
| existing CVS projects already contain several of these files. This text file |
| consists of a list of files, directories, or patterns. |
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| <P>For example, to add a .cvsignore file to ignore the entire bin directory of |
| an existing project: |
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| <li>In one of the navigation views, select a project that contains a /bin directory. |
| The bin directory will commonly contain the projects build output. These are |
| files that are generated from the project's source files and are usually not |
| version-controlled.</li> |
| <li>From the pop-up menu for the project, select <b> New > File</b>. </li> |
| <li>Type <i>.</i><samp>cvsignore</samp> as the file name, then press <b>Finish</b>. |
| The file will be created in your project's root directory. You should see |
| it in one of the navigation views.</li> |
| <li>Enter <samp>bin</samp> in the .cvsignore file and save it.</li> |
| <li>Select the project. From the context menu, select the <b> Team > |
| Synchronize with Repository</b> menu item. Notice that the bin directory |
| does not show as an outgoing change. It is ignored.</li> |
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| <P>The cvsignore file consists of a list of files, directories, or patterns. |
| In a similar way to the global ignore facility, the wildcards * and ? may be |
| present in any entry in the .cvsignore file. Any file or sub-directory |
| <i>in the current directory</i> that matches any one of the patterns will |
| be ignored. |
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| <p><b>Tip:</b> In the Team menu and in the Synchronize view resource context menu there is a menu item (<b>Add to .cvsignore</b>) |
| for adding a file pattern |
| to the appropriate .cvsignore file. This menu item is enabled for resources that are not yet under CVS version |
| control. |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-26.htm">Team programming with CVS</a><br> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="tasks-115.htm">Synchronizing with the repository</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-100d.htm">Version control life cycle: adding and ignoring resources</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-100d1.htm">Creating a global ignore pattern</a> |
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