Where is the SVN default list of ignored files?

Question

I have googled and search through the documentation. I get stuck on this.

Do you know where the list of ignored files by subversion is located ?

Answer 1

depends - you used to store it in a local file, per user. (either global-ignores section of the config, or registry depending on OS platform).

Now they moved it to a svn property so its stored in the repository. Its called svn:global-ignores and gets used automatically.

Personally, I used to put them in the pre-commit hook and reject any commits with banned file types.

Answer 2

You can find the default global file ignore list in the auto-generated user specific config file, in a commented-out line (key global-ignores in section miscellany). For example, in a file generated by Subversion 1.8:

# global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo __pycache__
#   *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store [Tt]humbs.db

The file location varies between operating systems; under Linux/UNIX the default is ~/.subversion/config.

Alternatively, you can directly look for the default ignore list in the Subversion source code archive file (subversion/include/svn_config.h, search for GLOBAL_IGNORE_LINE).

Example (Subversion 1.9):

#define SVN_CONFIG__DEFAULT_GLOBAL_IGNORES_LINE_1 \
  "*.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo __pycache__"
#define SVN_CONFIG__DEFAULT_GLOBAL_IGNORES_LINE_2 \
  "*.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store [Tt]humbs.db"