title: How to get SVN to ignore a particular directory included in my svn:ignore file?
body: <p>I’m using Mac 10.9.5 with SVN on the command line.  From within my src/main/webapp/WEB-INF directory, I execute</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn propedit svn:ignore .
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in which the file has two lines …</p>
  
  <pre><code>classes
   lib
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I run “svn status”, it reports “?” for all the JAR files in my lib folder, for example below are some of the files it reports …</p>
  
  <pre><code>?       lib/xercesImpl-2.8.0.jar
  ?       lib/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar
  ?       lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar
  ?       lib/xom-1.2.5.jar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know none of these files is under version control because when I run “svn del” on the lib directory, I get this …</p>
  
  <pre><code>Daves-MacBook-Pro:WEB-INF davea$ svn del lib
  svn: E200005: Use --force to override this restriction (local modifications may be lost)
  svn: E200005: '/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/sbadmin/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/antisamy-1.5.3.jar' is not under version control
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to get SVN to ignore files in my lib directory, or barring that, have it ignore my entire lib directory?</p>