01-14-2010

Continuing the documentation of the build system.  Over time we're trying to convert projects from the old IDEA project format to the newer IDEA 9 format.  Part of that process involves excluding the workspace.xml file from Subversion.  You never want to share that as that is specific to a particular IDEA environment.  I always have to Google for how to do a Subversion exclusion and always end up here.  To summarize, here is how to exclude a file from the command-line (you can usually do the same thing from IDEA):

1. cd into the directory containing the file to be excluded
2. type svn propset svn:ignore workspace.xml . to tell Subvsion to ignore workspace.xml. 
3. commit your changes

If you want to do multiple files in the same directory, extra steps are needed (refer to the link for more details).