title: How to turn-off skipping of .a files during svn add
body: <p>This question is similar to others I've seen on SO, but not quite the same.  The other similar questions either couldn't add a .a file (I can add it explicitly) or they had global-ignore problems (I don't think I do.)</p>
  
  <p><em>THIS</em> question is about how to change the default svn behaviour that doesn't appear to be caused by global-ignores (that I can tell.)  Here's a typical failure mode:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I want to add a 3rd party library (such as Flurry), so I do <code>svn add 3rdParty/flurry</code></li>
  <li>svn shows a bunch of files added.  I don't notice that it decided not to add <code>libFlurry.a</code>.</li>
  <li>I commit.</li>
  <li>My client can't build, because they're missing the .a file</li>
  <li>I go back and <code>svn add 3rdParty/flurry/libFlurry.a</code>, and commit, which works as expected</li>
  <li>All is fine at the client end.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>What's weird is, I don't have any global-ignores set.  Here's a snippet from my <code>~/.subversion/config</code> file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>### Section for configuring miscelleneous Subversion options.
  # [miscellany]
  ### Set global-ignores to a set of whitespace-delimited globs
  ### which Subversion will ignore in its 'status' output.
  # global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>note that <code>global-ignores</code> is (a) commented out and (b) doesn't contain <code>*.a</code>, anyway.</p>
  
  <p>At the start of the project, I did an <code>svn propset svn:ignore -F</code> with a file that contained:</p>
  
  <pre><code>### General
  build
  bin
  *.pbxuser
  *.mode1v3
  *.class
  jars
  Logs
  logs
  xcuserdata
  *.xcuserdatad
  
  ### Extra
  referenceMaterial
  tmp
  crashlogs
  symbols-xxx
  
  ### AppEngine
  .metadata
  .settings
  RemoteSystemsTempFiles
  appengine-generated
  
  ### 3rd party
  MP1.1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so that doesn't seem to be the cause.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> I'm on Mac OS-X (10.8.latest) and svn 1.8.1, though things have been like this for as long as I can remember.</p>
  
  <p>My question is this: how can I make it so that, when I do <code>svn add somedirectory</code>, the .a files get taken along for the ride?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>