Add the following line to the top of the file:
require ‘find’

Then, replace these lines…

system(“svn commit -m \”removing the temp directory from subversion \” “)
puts “Ignoring tmp dir”
system(“svn propset svn:ignore \”*\” tmp”+s)
puts “Updating and commiting again….”
system(“svn update tmp”+s)
system(“svn commit -m \”Ignore the whole tmp”+s+” directory, might not work on subdirectories? \” “)
…with these lines:

# Traverse the “tmp” subtree, ignoring directories which start with “.”,
# marking any remaining directories with a property to ignore all files,
# and removing any files therein from subversion.
Find.find(“tmp”) do |path|
if FileTest.directory?(path)
if File.basename(path)[0] == ?.
Find.prune # Skip this directory (e.g. “..”, “.svn”)
else
# Tell subversion to ignore all files in this directory.
system(“svn propset svn:ignore \”*\” “+path)
end
else
# Remove any files from subversion.
system(“svn remove “+path)
end
end
system(“svn commit -m \”removing the tmp subtree from subversion \” “)

…and the tmp subtree will be properly excluded from subversion.

The problem was that the old code was not marking subdirectories of ‘tmp’ with the svn:ignore property. The new code removes any stray files under tmp, and marks the ‘tmp’ directory and all subdirectories of ‘tmp’ with the svn:ignore property.

Thanks for this!