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From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Subject: .gitignore and svn:ignore [WAS: git-svn and submodules]
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:14:05 -0400
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Cc: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>,
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:45:13PM +0200, Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote:
> On 2007-10-15 09:07:21 +0200, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
>=20
> >   - git svn create-ignore (to create one .gitignore per directory
> > from the svn:ignore properties. This has the disadvantage of
> > committing the .gitignore during the next dcommit,
>=20
> I built ignore support for git-svnignore a long time ago. It converts
> the per-directory svn:ignore to per-directory .gitignore at commit
> import time, which is very handy:
>=20
> -I <ignorefile_name>::
>         Import the svn:ignore directory property to files with this
>         name in each directory. (The Subversion and GIT ignore
>         syntaxes are similar enough that using the Subversion pattern=
s
>         directly with "-I .gitignore" will almost always just work.)
>=20
> The only downside with that is that svn ignore patterns are
> non-recursive, while git ignore patterns are recursive. This could be
> solved by prefixing them with a "/".

Has anyone put any thought into mapping the other direction?=20
i.e. .gitignore  ->  svn:ignore

-chris