svn: omitting backup files from vim (.bak)

[orlox]

Hi! Well, my question is pretty much what the topic of the post says. Im developing a website and I'm using vim, wich generates backup files (*.bak). I need a way to make svn ignore this files when making a commit. I read something about making svn ignore certain kinds of files on a specific folder, but I need a way to make svn ignore all files of a certain type (in this case, the .bak files) when commiting.

[AlexThomson_NZ]

If you can live without vim creating backups, add this to your .vimrc

set nobackup

(Don't know how to get svn to ignore them, but it's something anyway)

[scooper]

You can also redirect the backup files elsewhere. For example, these lines in my ~/.vimrc file place backups and swap files in ~/.backup or in a .backup subdirectory of the working directory. If neither is found I think it follows the default rules, but merely creating ~/.backup will change where the files go.


set backupdir^=./.backup,$HOME/.backup
set directory^=./.backup,$HOME/.backup

[orlox]

Perfect! Setting the backup files as you said does the trick :)

Thanx!