One of the annoying things with using Tortoise SVN I have found was that I always have to exclude the bin, obj, and .suo files that are unique to each machine. Even if I did that someone else on my team might forget which just makes it a huge pain. I thought there must be a better way and sure enough there is a global ignore setting in the tortoise settings panel (just right click on any folder and select TortoiseSvn -> Settings). Right on the front page I noticed the global ignore setting:



So far my global pattern is:
    *\bin *\obj *\bin\* *\obj\* *.suo