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Terminal - Commands tagged svn - 92 results
chflags -R nouchg ./
2011-08-17 08:39:16
User: matths
Tags: svn samba osx folder
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make a samba shared folder writable, when doing an svn commit on OSX

otherwise you get this error message:

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

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svn st | grep '^?' | sed -e 's/\?[[:space:]]*//' | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 svn add
2011-08-13 05:39:41
User: tekiomo
Functions: grep sed tr xargs
Tags: svn
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add all files not under version control to repository
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lynx -dump -nolist http://whatthecommit.com/|sed -n 2p
2011-04-17 17:45:18
User: houghi
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com

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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | html2text | sed '$d'
2011-04-14 16:51:53
User: zbeekman
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny whatthecommit
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

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

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svn ci -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//')"
2011-04-14 15:05:14
User: zbeekman
Tags: version control svn log funny prank malicious whatthecommit
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Check in current directory to SVN with commical/terrible commit message. (Please don't actually run this command!)

DO NOT RUN this command! THIS WILL CHECK IN ALL CHANGES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY TO SUBVERSION WITH A TERRIBLE COMMIT MESSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

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curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' | sed '$d' | sed 's/<p>//'
2011-04-14 14:58:11
User: zbeekman
Functions: sed
Tags: version control svn git cvs log funny
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commit message generator - whatthecommit.com

Fetch comical VC commit messages from whatthecommit.com

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svn diff -r 1792:HEAD --summarize | awk '{if ($1 != "D") print $2}'| xargs -I {} tar rf incremental_release.tar {}
2011-04-05 15:00:49
User: windfold
Functions: awk diff tar xargs
Tags: bash svn awk xargs tar
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Create a tar of modified/added files since revision 1792.

The result of this command is a tar with all files that have been modified/added since revision 1792 until HEAD. This command is super useful for incremental releases.

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svn up -rREV file
2011-03-29 10:57:39
User: kaedenn
Tags: svn
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Revert an SVN file to previous revision

Kudos to xakon.

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svn diff -r M:N file.php | patch -p0
2011-03-29 04:15:02
User: ruslan
Functions: diff patch
Tags: svn diff revert patch
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Revert an SVN file to previous revision

M - current revision, N - older revision

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for R in `svn log file:///path/repo | grep ^r | grep dude | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dr -f2`; do svn ps svn:log --revprop -r $R "`svn pg svn:log --revprop -r $R file:///path/repo; perl -e 'print ".\n";' | fromdos`" file:///path/repo; done
2011-03-24 08:29:15
User: theist
Functions: cut grep ps
Tags: svn
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Fix all the commit log messages from a user of a bad subversion client

Let's supose some moron used some m$ shit to commit to a later svnsynced repo. On a svn sync all his message logs cause a svnsync: Error setting property 'log': this commands finds all its contributions and fix all his commit logs

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svnradd() { for i in $1/*;do if [ -e "$i" ];then if [ -d "$i" ];then svn add $i;svnradd $i;else svn add $i;fi; fi;done }
2011-02-16 03:33:57
User: lkjoel
Tags: bash svn file directory for add bash .svn sh /dev/null recursive if
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SVN Recursive Directory/File Adder

This will recursively add files/directories in SVN.

Usage:

svnradd yourfile

or

svnradd yourdirectory

then:

svn commit

Notice: It might not work properly, and not all files could get added.

Since there is a limit on characters, I couldn't add failure/success notices.

If you want failure/success notices, download Terminal Enhancements (http://tenhancements.tk/ )

It is included on Base Features

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svn st | awk ' {if ( $1 == "?" ){print $1="",$0}} ' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs svn add
2011-02-09 14:02:54
User: unixmonkey17801
Functions: awk sed xargs
Tags: svn
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add all files not under version control to repository

This should handle whitespaces well and will not get confused if your filenames have "?" in them

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xdg-open $(svn info | sed -n '/URL:/s/URL: //p')
2011-01-06 15:35:47
User: bartonski
Functions: info sed
Tags: svn xdg-open
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From an SVN working directory, open the corresponding repository directory in your favorite browser
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svn log -q | grep '^r[0-9]' | cut -f2 -d "|" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
2011-01-03 15:23:08
User: kkapron
Functions: cut grep sort uniq
Tags: bash svn sort uniq grep unix cut
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top svn committers (without awk)

list top committers (and number of their commits) of svn repository.

in this example it counts revisions of current directory.

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svn status | grep '^?' | sed -e 's/^? */svn add "/g' -e 's/$/"/g'|sh ; svn status | grep '^!' | sed -e 's/^! */svn delete "/g' -e 's/$/"/g'|sh
2010-11-18 09:57:45
User: ironmarc
Functions: grep sed sh
Tags: svn delete add automatically
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SVN script for automatically adding and deleting files
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svn log -q | grep -v "^-" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort -u
2010-10-07 21:52:05
User: michaelmior
Functions: cut grep sort
Tags: svn
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Get a list of all contributors to an SVN repo
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svn pe svn:ignore .
2010-08-26 13:45:33
User: unixmonkey11639
Tags: svn
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Edit the list of to ignore files in the active directory
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svn propedit svn:ignore .
2010-08-26 06:57:17
User: Tungmar
Tags: svn
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Edit the list of to ignore files in the active directory

Standard command, but I always have to search for it... ;-)

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svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add
2010-08-14 18:56:15
User: kureikain
Functions: awk grep xargs
Tags: svn awk grep
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Readd all files is missing from svn repo

When working on a big proeject with SVN, you create quite much files, for now! Can just sit here and type svn add for all of them!

svn status will return a list of all of file which get ?(not add), "M"(Modified), "D"(Deleted)! This code just grep "?" flag, then add it into SVN again!

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svn st | grep -e '^M' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn revert
2010-08-11 14:24:05
User: ethanmiller
Functions: awk grep xargs
Tags: svn awk xargs grep
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Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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find . -name .svn -exec rm \-rf {} \;
2010-07-01 18:47:50
User: eneko
Functions: find rm
Tags: svn find exec subversion
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Recursively remove all subversion folders
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svn merge -c -REV
2010-06-21 15:11:13
User: shadycraig
Functions: merge
Tags: svn merge revert
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revert a committed change in SVN

This command can be used to revert a particular changeset in the local copy.

I find this useful because I frequently import files into the wrong directory. After the import it says "Committed revision 123" or similar. to revert this change in the working copy do:

svn merge -c -123 .

(don't forget the .) and then commit.

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svn st | awk '{if ($1 ~ "?") print $2}' | xargs svn add
2010-06-19 03:07:26
User: sciurus
Functions: awk xargs
Tags: svn awk
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Add all unversioned files to svn

No need for grep, let awk do the match. This will not behave properly if the filenames contains whitespace, which is awk's default field separator.

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diff -wubBEr -x .svn dirA dirB
2010-05-21 10:47:02
User: ioggstream
Functions: diff
Tags: svn diff
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diff two svn repos ignoring spaces,tabs and svnfiles
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svn stat -u | sort | sed -e "s/^M.*/\o033[31m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^A.*/\o033[34m&\o033[0m/" -e "s/^D.*/\o033[35m&\o033[0m/"
2010-03-26 15:44:04
User: friedchuckles
Functions: sed sort stat
Tags: bash svn sed
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Colorize svn stat

Use color escape sequences and sed to colorize the output of svn stat -u.

Colors: http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/colorizing.html

svn stat characters: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.ref.svn.c.status

GNU Extensions for Escapes in Regular Expressions: http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/Escapes.html

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