title: How can I really get Subversion to ignore a directory?
body: <p>I would like to make it so that Subversion ignores my NetBeans IDE project configuration directories ("nbproject/") and their contents for all projects all the time. I read in the SVN docs that you can set global ignore patterns in <code>~/.subversion/config</code>. For example, in my config I have...</p>
  
  <pre><code>### Set global-ignores to a set of whitespace-delimited globs
  ### which Subversion will ignore in its 'status' output, and
  ### while importing or adding files and directories.
  global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la .class #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* 
    .DS_Store *.log nbproject
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Despite <code>nbproject</code> being in there, SVN does not ignore it. It shows up in status reports. Any way to prevent that?</p>
  
  <p>The <code>nbproject</code> dir did somehow get into the repo, but I removed it. Even though it's not in the repository and does not contain a <code>.svn</code> dir, SVN refuses to ignore it. Maybe because it was somehow noted in the parent dir's <code>.svn</code> dir?</p>
  
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  <p>Update</p>
  
  <p>I just completely deleted it from SVN and the filesystem and recreated the project. Now SVN is respecting the ignore pattern. I don't know why it wasn't before.</p>