How to get Subversion to ignore your Rails log files
Friday, September 5th, 2008Rails puts the log files in the same part of the tree that ends up under source control. If you don’t tell Subversion to ignore them, you’ll end up with all the log files under source control, which will drive you nuts.
If you already have them in the system:
cd YOUR_RAILS_APP/log
ls -l # Make sure you're in the right directory
svn --force rm * # Force Subversion to kill those files
cd .. # Move back to the rails root level
svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log
Hope this helps.

