With the svn:ignore property, is there a way I can specify what I want to ignore based on patterns which I don't want to ignore? In other words, I want to ignore everything but files ending in .xyz. How would I go about doing that (if it's even possible)?
One option I've explored is committing everything I want to be versioned, then setting the svn:ignore property on the directory to be '*', thus meaning no other files but what I've already committed will be versioned. This is the best I can come up with, but it feels dirty in that if I ever did need to add another file to be version, I'd have to make multiple commits... one to remove the svn:ignore property, another to add/commit the new file(s), and then a third to change svn:ignore back to '*'.
Your thoughts?
No, there is no exclusive matching like you described. This article lists the possibilities for pattern matching. It's limited to:
? - Matches any single character* - Matches any string of characters, including the empty string[ - Begins a character class definition terminated by ], used for matching a subset of charactersA similar question was asked already here.