Ignoring entire subdirectories in SVN?

I don't know if this will work, but you can try ignoring this way:

svn propset svn:ignore "person/" public/

Mario,

I just tried my own suggestion (what a concept!) and, as you might have guessed, it did not work. Then, I tried:

svn ps svn:ignore 'person' public/

(without the forward-slash after person) and that worked! Give that a try. If that doesn't work either, you can also try:

svn pe svn:ignore public/

That's the propedit command, and it should bring up a text-editor (whatever you've got it set up to use) with everything that is being ignored in public (which is probably nothing, so it will be an empty file). Once that text-editor is open, just type person on an empty line. Once you save the file and close the editor, the directory should be ignored.

Hope that helps, and sorry for the misleading solution in my last comment. Cheers!

Since we're on the svn topic, how do I switch back to the last copy after doing an svn update?