svn:ignore not working

Question

I got the following svn-ruke entered via Tortoise-SVN:

svn:ignore Debug . bin . obj . pkgobj . pkg . *.suo . (applied recursivly)

But when I commit my folder the /bin/* and /obj/* folders are still committed (throwing tree conflicts) Any clue what went wrong?

Answer 1

svn:ignore works only for certain commands (such as svn add) for unversioned items only. If the folder is already versioned (i.e. in the repository) it will still be committed. You need to svn delete it first and commit the delete.