SF patch 959726: sdist versus SVN

The disutils sdist command now ignores .svn directories.

Doc/dist/dist.tex

@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ fully processed the manifest template, we remove files that should not
 be included in the source distribution:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item all files in the Distutils ``build'' tree (default \file{build/})
-\item all files in directories named \file{RCS} or \file{CVS}
+\item all files in directories named \file{RCS}, \file{CVS} or \file{.svn}
 \end{itemize}
 Now we have our complete list of files, which is written to the manifest
 for future reference, and then used to build the source distribution
@@ -1098,8 +1098,8 @@ Distutils source distribution:
   included by the previous two steps, so it's important that the
   \code{prune} command in the manifest template comes after the
   \code{recursive-include} command
-\item exclude the entire \file{build} tree, and any \file{RCS} or
-  \file{CVS} directories
+\item exclude the entire \file{build} tree, and any \file{RCS},
+  \file{CVS} and \file{.svn} directories
 \end{enumerate}
 Just like in the setup script, file and directory names in the manifest
 template should always be slash-separated; the Distutils will take care

Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py

@@ -347,14 +347,14 @@ class sdist (Command):
           * the build tree (typically "build")
           * the release tree itself (only an issue if we ran "sdist"
             previously with --keep-temp, or it aborted)
-          * any RCS or CVS directories
+          * any RCS, CVS and .svn directories
         """
         build = self.get_finalized_command('build')
         base_dir = self.distribution.get_fullname()
 
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=build.build_base)
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=base_dir)
-        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(r'/(RCS|CVS)/.*', is_regex=1)
+        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(r'/(RCS|CVS|\.svn)/.*', is_regex=1)
 
 
     def write_manifest (self):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -311,6 +311,10 @@ Extension modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- The distutils sdist command now ignores all .svn directories, in
+  addition to CVS and RCS directories.  .svn directories hold
+  administrative files for the Subversion source control system.
+
 - Added a new module: cookielib.  Automatic cookie handling for HTTP
   clients.  Also, support for cookielib has been added to urllib2, so
   urllib2.urlopen() can transparently handle cookies.