Eclipse STS svn svn:ignore, not letting me ignore certain files

Question

I'm using Eclipse STS and SVN on Windows. I'm able to check-in/out from STS, no problem, but when I commit from STS I want to ignore generated files like .class, etc. So I'm trying to use the SVN Property tab and setting the property svn:ignore with the following exclusions...

target
target-eclipse
*.class

But when I commit from eclipse, the .class file still get displayed in the Commit dialog. Is the ignore pattern wrong? I tried using /*.class but eclipse won't let me save that pattern claiming the pattern is not valid

Answer 1

These patterns only apply to the current folder. As such, what you've provided will only exclude files or folders with those names from the root folder, but not any sub-folders. I don't believe that there is a SVN option that allows for these patterns to apply to all sub-folders as well.

Shouldn't all of your *.class files be in your "target" folder, or another "bin" folder anyway - separated from the source files? If / once so, then you can exclude that folder, which will exclude all of its children as well.

Alternatively, within Eclipse, under Window / Preferences / Team / Ignored Resources, you can add patterns there (e.g. *.class) - which will globally apply everywhere. (But I'd highly recommend the above approach instead.)