How to revert a subversion ignore?

Question

I've run the following command via commandline:

svn propset svn:ignore "*.classpath" .

I wanted to only ignore the .classpath file.

However, this seems to have messed things up and now a lot of directories seem to be ignored.

How do I revert this and start over?

Solution 1

Note

For this svn:ignore you effectively said "ignore in the currect directory only files with extension classpath": patterns for filenames in Subversion uses only OS-specific glob-pattern, not regexps

Fixes for syntax of DaFunix

• List all svn-properties and their values in somepath: svn proplist -v <PATH>|<URL>. For your case

  svn proplist -v .

Sample output for my URL

>svn proplist -v http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/trunk/
Properties on 'http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/trunk':
  bugtraq:logregex
    ([Ff][Ss])\s#
    (\d+)
  svn:mergeinfo
    /branches/Greetings:3-12
    /branches/i18n:18-20

• List single svn:property value (with known name): svn propget <PROPERTY> <PATH>|<URL>. For your case

  svn propget svn:ignore .

Sample output for my URL (same as before for proplist)

>svn propget bugtraq:logregex http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/trunk/
([Ff][Ss])\s#
(\d+)

Both proplist and propget operations are RO, will change nothing

In order to fix bad definition of property you can

or

Delete bad property and re-create it in correct form:

svn propdel svn:ignore . & svn propset svn:ignore "classpath" . (maybe use propset with -R option to define ignore resursively for the whole subtree)

or (as suggested by John Brodie) edit and fix current definition

svn propedit svn:ignore . and in editor window "*.classpath" change to "classpath", save

PS Don't forget:

• commit correct form of added property
• remove from versioned code previously (possibly) added classpath files: svn:ignore affect only unversioned new files, already added to repo files with current ignore-pattern must be unversioned by hand

Solution 2

svn propedit svn:ignore . should bring up your editor, where you can remove the offending ignores one at a time.

Comments

[chuongtv]

it's worked with visual studio 2015 editor. just use VisualSVN then select properties and then delete rule.