Re: Excluding .svn directories not working

[Erik Williamson]

Heh, I got bitten by this a while ago.  You need to say:

    ignore=.svn

instead of 'exclude', and all your worries will magically go away.

Best,
Erik.

Eric Dorland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, I have a feeling I'm doing something brain dead, but I recently
> switched to storing my master files in subversion, and now I can't seem
> to include .svn directories when doing directory copies. 
>
> I have a copy directive that looks like this: 
>
> copy:
>         nagios_master::
>         ${etc_root}/${host}/nagios      dest=$(nagios_etc)
>                                         server=${server}
>                                         recurse=inf
>                                         exclude=.svn
>                                         backup=false
>                                         verify=true
>                                         owner=nagios
>                                         group=nagios
>                                         define=nagios_reload
>
> But the .svn directory still gets copied. I even have an ExcludeCopy
> that looks like:
>
> ExcludeCopy = ( *~ *% core .* CVS .cvsignore .svn .svn/* )
>
> And still .svn directories are copied everywhere. Please, someone point
> out my folly.

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