migration of svn-ignore to .gitignore

[phaidros7]

would be nice to have, else I always do this after svn2git:

svn propget svn:ignore -R svn://host/repo > .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m 'Convert svn:ignore properties to .gitignore.'

[JakeWharton]

svn:ignore can be set on any directory within the repository hierarchy. You would have to recursively traverse all folders and add lines prefixed with the current directory for each property found.

[phaidros7]

imho "propget svn:ignore -R" gets all the ignores recursively. of course in a useless format, but after altering it suitable for git, it seems to work.

[toastkid]

@phaidros7 - top tip! I used it like this:

svn propget svn:ignore -R > .gitignore
then in the new .gitignore file, replace " - " with "/". Might have to do a little bit of tidying.
then copy .gitignore to your git folder.

[nirvdrum]

Seems like a nice thing to add. Pull requests are welcome if you've already done the work.

[luisfaceira]

This would be nice indeed.

However, I'm not sure I like this approach. Setting every ignore in a central file is a simple solution but by doing it with isolated .gitignore files in each directory it would also solve a different related issue: empty directories are not imported into git (they are oddly not supported in git).

For logging and caching logs in our frameworks, we have "svn:ignore *" and that keeps those directories empty, which then are not imported into git. But if we use ".gitignore *" in each folder, they would be imported since they won't be empty anymore.

I've created a simple oneliner that helps me achieve what I was talking about.
There are some issues so all the help is appreciated: https://gist.github.com/1213601

[aik099]

After 2 years this is still an issue. Any plans on fixing.

Without this I got every empty folder with "svn:ignore" property set to it removed in each tag/branch of imported repository.

[aik099]

It seems, that git svn create-ignore option with following description:
Recursively finds the svn:ignore property on directories and creates matching .gitignore files. The resulting files are staged to be committed, but are not committed. Use -r/--revision to refer to a specific revision.

Also git svn mkdirs would create empty directories, that were deleted during import. Maybe it's good idea to place empty .gitignore file in them to prevent their deletion.

[aik099]

Right now I don't see other way, rather then for each branch/tag produced by "git svn" command do a single commit with all .gitignore files. Then convert branch-tags into real tag, that svn2git already does.

[jamesford42]

Um, this seem to me like an super easy solution... simply make a .gitignore inside each folder, populated with its svn ignore properties. There doesn't need to be some complicated aggregation of everything into a root level .gitignore