osx svn propedit
sometimes you need to edit properties for a folder or file, from the command line in os x. for example:
>svn propedit svn:ignore cache
which will most likely bring you back some hokey pokey about your svn property editor not being set. which is annoying. like plenty of things are annoyin on macs. but fear not dear reader; fear not.
you can simply set the value for SVN_EDITOR thus:
> export SVN_EDITOR = nano
that sets the nano editor as the default. some of you may prefer textmate or other, but if i’m doing terminal stuff, why not just stay in the terminal. and, well, i have deep feelings for nano.
deep.
so now when you run that, you will most likely see nano open up and an empty document will be there waiting for your patterns to add to the svn:ignore property (try * for cache to ignore the symfony cache).
save that bad boy (oh, comeon, nano is easy. its like norton utilities from the 80s).
deep.
presto. bob’s your uggle.