I've added these to svn:ignore: mrs $ svn status . ? TAGS ? TAGS.sub ? java/TAGS ? java/TAGS.sub ? objc/TAGS.sub ? objc/TAGS ? objcp/TAGS.sub ? objcp/TAGS ? cp/TAGS ? cp/TAGS.sub ? fortran/TAGS ? fortran/TAGS.sub ? treelang/TAGS.sub ? treelang/TAGS These come from make TAGS and are used by emacs for M-.