Using SVN and Git side-by-side

Question

I'm using SVN and Git to version-control the same folder, and am committing to 2 separate repositories; one hosted on Google Code and the other on GitHub, respectively.

SVN creates .svn directories in every directory that it tracks. When I add my files and folders to Git, I use globbing and simply glob the folder that I've modified in my working copy because there are lots of files and subdirectories in it, and I don't want to add them one by one.

I've tried adding */.svn/* to my .gitignore file, but to no avail. Is there any way of making Git and SVN coexist without the the clutter of SVN getting committed to the Git repo?

Answer 1

All you should need to do is add .svn to your .gitignore file, without the extra slashes and stars. Or better, add it to .git/info/exclude which serves the same purpose for your own use and doesn't get committed to your repository.