project exporer and .svn folders

[stereofrog]

hi there

as a first time poster let me thank you guys for this amazing product.
finally a decent textmate replacement for pc!

now to my question: when adding a folder to the project i'd like to ignore (hide, skip) ".svn" folders, but for some reason they insist to appear there.
i feel like i should write something magical in "exclude" box, but what?
".svn" or ".*" don't seem to work.

[alex]

Hi stereofrog,

thanks a lot for a feedback and welcome to forum.

I have checked the scenario. And yes, you are right.
Initially I thought this is a bug, but after some thoughts, I feel that not.

The filtering is not done for folders at all, to make it easier to exclude, include files by providing only "*.ext" .
And of course, if such mask is applied to folders - they are also skipped. Otherwise, it would be probably necessary to create mask like this: "\*.ext" . Which is not obvious.

But probably exist another solution for problem with .svn files. I assume you want to skip them because they are technical, then they probably have hidden or system attribute set, and these folders can be filtered automatically by editor (I have found a bug that they are not filtered now, only files are filtered by attributes, but this error would be fixed new 1.47 beta end of the week).

And, writing all of these i got an idea
Just set: Skip empty folders : [X] and for Exclude : "*.svn\*" .
This would work. But bug with hidden files would be fixed any way.

Best regards,
Alex.

[stereofrog]

Thanks, that worked.

from my understanding, projects are not "live", that is, if I create a new file outside of Hippo, it isn't added automatically. Is there a way to enable this?

and it would be great if you could add "Shell" submenu to the project folders as well - useful for explorer-integrated tools like tortoise, 7zip etc

thanks again for your support

[alex]

Hi,

yes, projects are not "live". And folders inside do not correspond to real folders in file system, this is also a reason why you could not call shell menu for them. Folder it is just a way to group data (files, urls, tools etc). Delete of files, move of them, copy would only influence "links" to files.

When you do Add Folder, it just create a snapshot of your file system based on current filter criteria. And if you create a new file, you need to manually add it to project.
There are some helpers for adding current files in menus and context menu on document.

Virtual folders (basically what you want) would come with 1.50. Then such "virtual folder" would represent a real time filtered view on your file system (with same criteria as for Add folder). In case of virtual folder it would not be possible to organize or delete files inside of it.

You can check the implementation already with raw alpha, but please not use it productively it is very unstable (really).

Best regards,
Alex.