Ignore/unignore folders/files in TortoiseSVN

Question

The following webpage suggests that it is possible to unignore files/folders with TortoiseSVN by right-clicking the file/folder and select "remove from ignore list". I do not have this option as shown below:

Also what is the difference between "Unversion add to ignore list" and "Unversion add to ignore list (recursive)"? I have read on here that "Unversion add to ignore list (recursive)" ignores all files/folders in the tree, but in my experience "Unversion add to ignore list" does this as well.

Answer 1

1. Right click on folder and go To properties. You will see list of all ignored files and externals.

2. Unversioned are the files which are either in source control nor in ignore

Answer 2

TortoiseSVN → Unversion and add to ignore list will first mark the file/folder for deletion from the repository, keeping the local copy.
It also adds this item to the ignore list so that it will not be added back into Subversion again by mistake.
Once this is done you just need to commit the parent folder.

Answer 3

You do not see the remove from ignore list option because you did not open the context menu on an ignored file or folder. Your context menu is what you get when you right-click a versioned item (that's why you see an option to unversion it.) So start with a file or folder that is in your source controlled tree but is not itself source-controlled. Open the context menu there and you will see the option to remove it from the ignore list.

As far as the "recursive" option on ignoring an item, that likely means it will add the item to the svn:ignore property of the current directory and its child directories rather than just the current directory.