How to ignore SVN folders in WinMerge?

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M4N picture M4N · Sep 25, 2009 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

I'm trying to recursively compare two Subversion working copy folders using WinMerge.

Unfortunately, WinMerge displays lots of differencing files inside of the subversion control folders (.svn or _svn).

Is it possible to somehow exclude the subversion folders from the comparison? Or is there another (free) diff-tool which is able to do this?

Answer

Greg picture Greg · Sep 25, 2009

Try making a Filefilter

WinMerge handles this just fine. You want to create and use a Filter. Under Tools | Filters... | Filefilters, create a new filter or modify an existing one.

It will look like this:

## Ignore Java class and jar files
f: \.class$
f: \.jar$

## Ignore subversion housekeeping directories
d: \\.svn$
d: \\._svn$

Save it, then when selecting items to merge, select the filter you defined from the Select Files or Folders dialog box. Bonus points: It will save this and use it as a default for future merges.

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