Make Subversion Ignore Directories Completely

I want to exclude “log” and other transient directories from SVN.  As far as I can tell, SVN’s global ignore example does not show how to exclude a directory itself.  But there is a way. 

To make SVN completely ignore a directory named “log” and all its contents, add log to the global-ignores line in the ~/.subversion/config file.

This is the only way I’ve found to make SVN 1.5.x & 1.6.x to not show the log directory when I run the svn status command.