Using SVN with Python and .pyc files

[Duncan Booth]

James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I have been moving to managing a lot of my code with SVN and I have 
> found it to work extremely well. However, I'm not exactly sure how to 
> deal with all of the .pyc files that get created every time I test a 
> project or package. How do people manage this? Do you run a script to 
> find files with the .pyc extension and delete those before every commit, 
> or is there a more elegant way? It seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth 
> an memory on the server side to constantly be dealing with these files 
> that contain no real information.

You use svn:ignore to ignore files you don't want version controlled.

See:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.ignore