Use path of subdirectory for svn:ignore property

I only want to set the svn:ignore property in the project root directory, so I only have to keep track of one place. So I tried to include test/test_samples/*_dex.txt, but the file is still listed under non-versioned when I try to commit.

To prove that generally speaking I included *_dex.txt only in the test/test_samples directory, which worked as expected. I also tried / and , as I am working on Windows.

Any other idea how to solve this?

Subversion expects you to set file names or wildcards per directory. So setting a path in the project's root will not work.

Quoting from Ignoring Unversioned Items in the Red Bean Book (emphasis mine):
> The other way [i.e. setting svn:ignore] makes use of Subversion's directory property support [...]. Both of the mechanisms use file patterns (strings of literal and special wildcard characters used to match against filenames) to decide which files to ignore.

While it does not state that the svn:ignore property was not inherited from parent directories, the only property that is explicitly inherited is svn:mergeinfo (see Mergeinfo)

I would guess that subversion simply looks at the svn:ignore property of the current directory without bothering to go up the tree.

For the sake of completeness, there are also global ignore patterns (mostly used for editors' backup and swap files). It seems unlikely these are a good solution in your case.

So you will have to go for the decentralized solution and set the svn:ignore property on directory test/test_samples to *_dex.txt.