Global svn ignore
I have had the recent annoyance of having svn status reveal every .pyc file in my projects. I usually use eclipse for developing in python/django, but on my old (fluxbox-revived) laptop, eclipse is too much of a hog to run so I settle on gedit (awesome) and the command-line svn, which works just about as great.
The only thing I couldn't figure out is how to get svn to ignore my *.pyc files, and I tried propset and a bunch of other stuff.
Finally
I changed a line in my ~/.subversion/config file, I think it was global-ignore and added *.pyc to the end.
My next svn status? Pretty as can be, and free of pyc files.