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Question

How can I construct a MSBuild ItemGroup to exclude .svn directories and all files within (recursively). I've got:

<ItemGroup> 
     <LibraryFiles Include="$(LibrariesReleaseDir)***.*" Exclude=".svn" />
</ItemGroup>

At the moment, but this does not exclude anything!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72153/msbuild-itemgroup-excluding-svn-directories-and-files-within

Answer 1

Thanks for your help, managed to sort it as follows:

<ItemGroup>
     <LibraryFiles Include="$(LibrariesReleaseDir)***.*" 
                   Exclude="$(LibrariesReleaseDir)**.svn**" />
</ItemGroup>

Turns out the pattern matching basically runs on files, so you have to exclude everything BELOW the .svn directories (.svn\**) for MSBuild to exclude the .svn directory itself.