Subversion global-ignores and .egg-info in Python/Plone development
Posted on October 3, 2009 by Mikko Ohtamaa
Filed Under plone, python, technology
Subversion does a good job by ignoring most of build/temporary/unwanted files by default.
However, there is one exception still existing at least in Subversion 1.6: Python egg folders. All folders whose name ends up with .egg-info should not committed or considered in version controlling actions. your.package.name.egg-info folder is generated inside your Python egg source folder when you run setup.py / setuptools.
If you are working with Python source code eggs, add the following line to your ~/.subversion/config
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store *.egg-info *.pyc *.pyo .project .pydevproject
Otherwise development tools like Mr. Developer might get confused.
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Just a note:
none of the files to ignore, should be already checked into svn. Otherwise it wont work!
Updated line:
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store *.egg-info *.pyc *.pyo .project .pydevproject build *.so
Also add: ._* (Mac metadata on foreign filesystems) and *.tmproj (TextMate project files).