Is there a way to set file in SVN repo. to be auto ignored on checkout?

Question

I would like to include my project files and other config files within my SVN repo. but don't want the changes committed back into the repo. So is there a way to set files on the server/repo. end so that when they are checked out they will be automatically ignored?

Answer 1

The usual way to solve this is don't put the real configuration files in the repository. Instead of having

config/whatever.cfg

in your repository, store

config/whatever.cfg.example

and then manually copy the config/whatever.cfg.example to config/whatever.cfg when you check out the repository and set it up for your local environment.