title: How to get Subversion to work with auto-generated files?
body: <p>I'm using ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects with TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN, but this is a general question about generated files in Subversion.</p>
  
  <p>A Web Deployment Project automatically generates a parallel "deployment" version of your website with all code stripped out and compiled into a single assembly. My file structure is:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><strong>Trunk</strong></li>
  <li><strong>Trunk/MyProject</strong> (website root)</li>
  <li><strong>Trunk/MyProject_deploy</strong> (deployment project root)</li>
  <li><strong>Trunk/MyProject_deploy/Release</strong> (deployment website root, automatically generated)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Here's the problem: <strong>MyProject_deploy/Release</strong> is regenerated on build (in Release mode). The directory is deleted and re-created, so I lose all the .svn metadata; and when I go to commit, I get status "Obstructed", which I've looked up and means that there's an unmanaged local folder with the same name as a managed folder on the server. </p>
  
  <p>(I could just ignore the Release folder, but I want to do FTP deploy directly from the Subversion server.)</p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to deal with auto-generated files in Subversion?</p>