svn:ignore -only for ignoring during a commit or is it also during update?

I want to make sure that some ide project metadata files are not updated when I checkout from svn. Unfortunately it has been checked into the project when the project was created, but I have my own version of these files.

Will svn:ignore also ignore the file during update -ie., not update the file ? I am assuming its not going to be the case. If not, is there a way 开发者_开发技巧to tell svn to not update a file ?

Svn:ignore only affects untracked files. It does not affect files already tracked by svn, nor files explicit mentioned at the command line (for example svn add * will also add ignored files in a unix shell, since the * is interpreted by the shell, and thus override any active svn:ignore property).

You might want to delete or rename the project metadata file in the repository.

Why not checkout an older revision of the source tree into a new directory, modify one of the metadata files, do an update, and see what happens?

If nothing else, you should be able to assign all of the non-metadata files to a Subversion changeset and use the --changeset argument to specify that your update, etc commands should only operate on those files.