How do you get subversion to ingnore certain files? It can be done globally or on a per directory basis. For global ignores find your subversion config file. For me this was here ~/.subversion/config then edit the following line, here I’ve added *.tmproj to ignore any file which ends with .tmproj (the * being a reg exp for any prefix). global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.tmproj To ingnore files on a per directory basis cd to the directory in question and use the following. svn propset svn:ignore "*.cache" . This will apply the ignore to the file or files specifed by the pattern. In this case all files ending with .cache. The trialing . applies the ignore to the current directory, but can be the path to any subversion directory. The command above creates a .svn/dir-props file with the following contents in the specified directory. K 10 svn:ignore V 8 *.cache END