Sorry, this is probably a daft question, but I am having a slow day.
I have a folder:
wp-content/uploads/
I would like all files and folders within /uploads/ to be ignored by svn. But I don't want them to be deleted as they are needed for the website to work.
The contents of /uploads/ were not in version control, i.e. they were not checked in so I did the following in the terminal:
$ cd /wp-content/uploads/
$ svn propset svn:ignore '*' .
So now when I check the status of svn using svn status I get the following:
M wp-content/uploads
So now my question, since it says "M", do I need to commit wp-content/uploads ?
If I do, will it commit the actual folder contents or simply the property that has been set? I don't want the contents to be committed. But committing the property would make sense.
At this point I am just unsure about what exactly will be committed if I do svn commit /wp-contents/uploads/
Yes, you must to commit your modified Working Copy (modified because changing properties also is part of history, which SVN-repository have to save and manage)
If content of /wp-contents/uploads/ was not added to SVN (and files was shown with '?' status before), then now, even before committing changed property, all ? must just disappear from svn status and files (exising and will added later) become "invisible" to SVN
svn commit /wp-contents/uploads/ will commit (as intended) only property-change for versioned folder (properties are the same first-class citizens for SVN as files and folders)