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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

Terminal - archive all files containing local changes (svn)
svn st | cut -c 8- | sed 's/^/\"/;s/$/\"/' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz
2009-02-09 11:24:31
User: chrisdrew
Functions: cut sed tar xargs
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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

Create a tgz archive of all the files containing local changes relative to a subversion repository.

Add the '-q' option to only include files under version control:

svn st -q | cut -c 8- | sed 's/^/\"/;s/$/\"/' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

Useful if you are not able to commit yet but want to create a quick backup of your work. Of course if you find yourself needing this it's probably a sign you should be using a branch, patches or distributed version control (git, mercurial, etc..)

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Terminal - Alternatives
svn st -q | cut -c 2- | tr -d ' ' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz
2011-08-31 10:30:29
User: titus
Functions: cut tar tr xargs
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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

This works more reliable for me ("cut -c 8-" had one more space, so it did not work)

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svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz
2010-01-28 11:43:16
User: unixmonkey8046
Functions: cut tar
Tags: svn xargs tar parallel
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archive all files containing local changes (svn)

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'.

Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.

Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.

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just the sed for putting something in quotes is worth mod points

Comment by wwest4 227 weeks and 2 days ago

...the rest is good too :)

Comment by wwest4 227 weeks and 2 days ago

svn st | cut -c 8- | sed 's/^/\"/;s/$/\"/' | xargs tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

does not work if you have a file called: '12" record'

It works with parallel:

svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -Xq tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

Comment by unixmonkey8046 176 weeks and 6 days ago

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