Ignore .pyc files in Subversion

Subversion allows you to exclude certain files using regular expressions. This needs to be applied to each directory individually. So, if you add a new directory I think you will need to run the command again. To apply the svn:ignore property to your project you just need to do two things:

Create a file (.svnignore) with the regular expressions

*.pyc
*~


Run svn propset on the project

svn -R propset svn:ignore -F .svnignore .

-R indicates that you are doing this recursively so all the directories ignore these.
-F indicates the file we just created with the regular expressions.

EDIT 5/27/08:
If you’ve already got yourself into the mess of versioning your compiled files, then you might want to do a few things.
1) Revert all the .pyc files (you can always recompile them). You don’t want there to be any local changes when you try to delete them:
find -name "*.pyc" -exec svn revert {} \;
2) Delete all the .pyc files using `svn delete`:
find -name "*.pyc" -exec svn delete {} \;
3) Finally recompile and re-run the svn ignore code above