Why do some directories mentioned in global-ignores still show up when running svn stat?

Question

I'm running svn under Cygwin. This is the global-ignores line in my svn config:

global-ignores = .classpath .project ~*.docx *~ .settings

And yet I get the following result from svn stat :

$ svn stat
?       .settings/org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.superType.name
?       .settings/org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.superType.container
?       .settings/org.eclipse.m2e.core.prefs
?       .settings/.jsdtscope

Why does the .settings directory show up? If I add .foobar to global-ignores

global-ignores = .classpath .project ~*.docx *~ .settings .foobar

and create a new directory .foobar it is hidden from the status as expected:

$ mkdir .foobar
$ ls -d .*
.  ..  .classpath  .foobar  .metadata  .project  .settings
$ svn stat
?       .settings/org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.superType.name
?       .settings/org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.ui.superType.container
?       .settings/org.eclipse.m2e.core.prefs
?       .settings/.jsdtscope

I've also tried the following global-ignores:

global-ignores = .classpath .project .settings

but the .settings still show up in the status.

Answer 1

It seems that .settings is a versioned item. Run svn info .settings to make sure. If it is versioned SVN won't ignore it - ignoring works only with unversioned items.