Commands tagged svn

make usable on OSX with filenames containing spaces. note: will still break if filenames contain newlines... possible, but who does that?!

Get the list of changed files between revision 43 and HEAD revision: svn diff . -r43:HEAD --summarize

Strip extra 8 characters from every line: cut -c9-99999

Copy the listed files to home/me/destination: cpio -pvdmu ~/destination

Make a plain copy (-p), list files being copied (-v), create needed directories (-d), preserve modification time (-m), overwrite unconditionally (-u)

This is useful when you are uploading svn project files to a new git repo.

This command allows you to revert every modified file one-by-one in a while loop, but also after "echo $file;" you can do any sort of processing you might want to add before the revert happens.

command to find out the unused SVN repositories from the server via svnlook. This lists the when the last commit (HEAD revision) has happened in the repository.

handels @, ?, whitespaces in names.

replace "?" and "add" by "!" and "rm" for svn mass remove.

---> I m looking for a nicer way to write it, perhaps with something using " perl -ne '`blahblah` if /\?(.*)/' "

If you have ever edited a locally checked out version of a file to tweak it for testing purposes, and came back to it over a weekend, you might have forgotten what you exactly changed. This command helps you see the differences between the the checked in SVN version, and the one you tweaked.

simply change extension for others programming languages

List all svn externals dependencies of a specific project.

Number of files in a SVN Repository

This command will output the total number of files in a SVN Repository.

svn log -v --> takes log of all

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-r {from}{to} --> gives from and to revision

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awk of line 'r'with numbers

Assign user=3rd column [ie; username]

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if username = George

print details

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Print lines starts with M/U/G/C/A/D

[* A Added * D Deleted * U Updated * G Merged * C Conflicted]

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sort all files

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Print only uniq file's name alone.

afaik, svn doesn't have a good, scriptable way of telling you these two basic pieces of information.

If you don't have html2text

dirrrty: use -p to chomp automatically, substitute all newlines away and then replace the "---" by a newline ? bingo!

s/// => s/// is just a cooler way to write s///, s/// which is just the small brother of s///; s/// (comma is an operator!)

have fun!

the output of svn log is annoying to grep, since it spreads the useful info over multiple lines. This compacts the output down to one line so eg you can grep for a comment and see the rev, date & committer straight away.

Updated: MUCH shorter, easier to remember. Now it just replaces newlines with spaces, except on '---' lines.

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.

otherwise you get this error message:

svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries': Operation not permitted

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com

Requires html2text. Print bad, but often funny commit messages from whatthecommit.com