<p>So I have some files I want to ignore in a subversion repository, but I don't want my ignore patterns for this to be propagated to the repository.</p>

<p>In other words, I added some private files in my checkout that I want to keep, but they only exist for me and wouldn't make sense to be ignored for everyone, so if I use the svn:ignore, this will apply on the directory, and I either have to check that in (which I don't want to do), or see that this directory was modified every time I do an svn status.</p>

<p>So, ideally I would like something like a .svnignore file which I could then mark to ignore itself as well as some other files (I think this is a possibility in git for example, using a .gitignore file, or whatever the name is).</p>

<p>I'm guessing it might work to ignore the whole directory (maybe), but then I suspect I won't see any new files in that directory, which would also not be desirable.</p>

<p>So does anybody know a way to do this in subversion?</p>

[{'answer_id': 52408, 'author': 'Ben Scheirman', 'author_id': 3381, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3381', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m confused about 2 things:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>why do you have files that you don\'t want to check in that other people <em>might</em> want to check in?  seems like you\'d get a conflict if that happened anyway</li>\n<li>does just "ignoring" in the human sense not work for you?</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I\'m just having trouble seeing a scenario where you wouldn\'t want to use svn:ignore...</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 52574, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Subversion <strong>does</strong> have a <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.props.special.ignore" rel="nofollow noreferrer">per-user, global ignore setting</a>, which sounds like what you want. Look in your <code>.subversion</code> directory (found in your <em>home</em> directory) and locate the <code>Miscellany</code> section of the config file. There should be an entry called global-ignores.</p>\n\n<p>For Windows users, this setting is found in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Tigris.org\\Subversion.</p>\n\n<p>More information is available in <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Version Control with Subversion (the SVNBook)</a>.</p>\n'}]
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