Setting a folder to be ignored, must I commit this change/modification?

Question

Sorry, this is probably a daft question, but I am having a slow day.

I have a folder:

wp-content/uploads/

I would like all files and folders within /uploads/ to be ignored by svn. But I don't want them to be deleted as they are needed for the website to work.

The contents of /uploads/ were not in version control, ie they were not checked in so I did the following in the terminal:

$ cd /wp-content/uploads/
$ svn propset svn:ignore '*'  .

So now when I check the status of svn using svn status I get the following:

M     wp-content/uploads

So now my question, since it says "M", do I need to commit wp-content/uploads ?

If I do, will it commit the actual folder contents or simply the property that has been set? I don't want the contents to be committed. But committing the property would make sense.

At this point I am just unsure about what exactly will be committed if I do svn commit /wp-contents/uploads/

Answer 1

Yes, you must to commit your modified Working Copy (modified because changing properties also is part of history, which SVN-repository have to save and manage)

If content of /wp-contents/uploads/ was not added to SVN (and files was shown with '?' status before), then now , even before committing changed property, all ? must just disappear from svn status and files (exising and will added later) become "invisible" to SVN

svn commit /wp-contents/uploads/ will commit ( as intended ) only property-change for versioned folder (properties are the same first-class citizens for SVN as files and folders)