I used to use the same trick Rodney Dawes describes in Subverting Subversion. Yes, it was very annoying to have to set everything from a file every time, or from stdin.
Ah, but there’s a better way, and people new to SVN seem to somehow miss this valuable command.
$ svn propedit svn:ignore
Up comes your editor, just [...]

Another year come and gone. Hopefully everybody is out having a good time or recovering from a good time. I just finished up for the night and am planning to get some reading done before bed, but thought a quick blog post summarizing the year was in order.

This year marks my second year living in [...]