Excluding the Bin folder from Source Control?

blaze6947 · Post by **blaze6947** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:50 am

Is there a way to exclude files or folders from source control?

blaze6947 · Post by **blaze6947** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:01 am

Are you talking about the VS2005 integrated client? These responses assume that you are.

Contents of a bin directory are only added if you explicitly include the folder in your project.

In the case of web site projects (not to be confused with web application or web service projects), where there is no notion of manual inclusion or exclusion, you have to manually exclude the files when you do an add or checkin. This will be corrected in a future release to consult the repository file/folder exclusion list, which can be modified using via the administrative web interface.

felinesoft · Post by **felinesoft** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:41 am

Hi, for the time being, could you recommend the "best practise" for dealing with the Bin folder in Web site project in VS2005?

blaze6947 wrote:Are you talking about the VS2005 integrated client? These responses assume that you are.

Contents of a bin directory are only added if you explicitly include the folder in your project.

In the case of web site projects (not to be confused with web application or web service projects), where there is no notion of manual inclusion or exclusion, you have to manually exclude the files when you do an add or checkin. This will be corrected in a future release to consult the repository file/folder exclusion list, which can be modified using via the administrative web interface.