Yea, this is a slick little feature.  We have a standard set of ignore values we use for all devs on our team

My standard ignore set is

bin

obj

*.suo

And then I add extras as appropriate to the project.  Helpful hint: if you're using SVN via the command line and edit the svn:ignore property using, e.g., Notepad, keep in mind that it uses each line as the match pattern, *including trailing spaces*.  That one's bitten me before.

Hi Tuna I will share with you one of my secrets.

If you are using "TortoiseSVN", when starting a new project is very complicated to "remove" these files/directorys for the first commit. I commit "EVERYTHING" in the first commit and then in the explorer I pick those unnecesary folder and "righ click holding SHIFT" then you gonna se an option "DELETE (keep local)"!!! This feature is really cool.. You can do a second commit to delete and ignore those unwanted folders.

How do you write the property to ignore all bin folders in a solution? Do you need to set the "apply recursively" flag and just put 'bin' and 'obj' in the string?

Easier still is to set your system-wide ignores. You'll be hitting the same ones over and over again on most every project, as will the other developers. If you make the setting global for your machine (rather than stored in the repository), you can stop worrying about any of those whenever you do any operation.

For TortoiseSVN, right-click in any Explorer window and go to TortoiseSVN > Settings. On the General page, put your ignores under the "Global ignore pattern", separated by spaces.

Where I use both Tortoise and command-line SVN, I hit the "Edit" button below that, locate and uncomment the # global-ignores directive, and set my values there instead.

As a Resharper user, my pattern is a bit different, as well as having special excludes for logs and backup files, but:

global-ignores = _ReSharper* bin obj *.suo *.cache *.[Bb][Aa][Kk] *.user *.log* *.resharper