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Script for adding all new files in a SVN repository

July 26, 2007

When working with revision controlled stuff you sometimes add loads of new files to an already existing repository. Then when you are about to check in the next revision you have forgotten where all the new files are and you probably don’t feel like writing svn add thefile too many times. This is of course no problem if you’r using a decent SVN client – like Tortoise SVN on Windows – but I prefer the command line so the solution was writing a script that adds all new files in a directory structure to the SVN repository.

There are “one liners” for this but I wanted a bit more flexibility and ease of use so I wrote the a script that also lets you define regexp patterns for files you don’t want to add even if they exist in the directory structure.

This is how to use it:

7 lines of Bash
  1. # Add all new files
  2. svnadd path/to/repository/
  3. # Add all new files except those matching the regexp
  4. svnadd -s ".*.txt|tmp/.*" path/to/repository/
  5. # Add all new files except those matching the regexp in
  6. # the file defined by the "-f" flag
  7. svnadd -f regexp.txt path/to/repository/

Quite easy! If you don’t feel like remembering the pattern for files to skip, put the regexp in a file and use the svn add thefile flag.

77 lines of Bash
  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. ##########################################################################
  3. #
  4. # Script for adding all new files in a directory structure to an SVN
  5. # repository.
  6. #
  7. # copyright © 2007 Pontus Östlund <spam@poppa.se>
  8. #
  9. # The svnadd script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  10. # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  11. # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
  12. # option) any later version.
  13. #
  14. # The svnadd script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  15. # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  16. # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
  17. # Public License for more details.
  18. #
  19. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  20. # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
  21. # Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  22. #
  23. ##########################################################################
  25. while getopts "s:f:h" opts
  26. do
  27. case $opts in
  28. s) skip="$OPTARG";;
  29. f) if [ -f "$OPTARG" ]; then
  30. skip=$(head -n 1 $OPTARG)
  31. else
  32. echo "$OPTARG doesn't exist!"
  33. fi
  34. ;;
  35. h) help=1;;
  36. esac
  37. done
  39. shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
  41. if [ -z $1 ] || [ "$help" ]; then
  42. echo "About: svnadd enables you to add all new files in [dir] to a "
  43. "subversion repository"
  44. echo "Usage: svnadd [flags] [dir]"
  45. echo
  46. echo " -s <pattern> Regexp pattern for files to skip"
  47. echo " -f <path> Path to file containing regexp for files to skip"
  48. echo " The regexp should be placed in line one!"
  49. echo " [dir] The path to the repository"
  50. echo
  51. echo "Example: svnadd svnsrc/"
  52. echo "Example: svnadd -s 'tmp/.*.xml' svnsrc/"
  53. echo "Example: svnadd -f regexp.txt svnsrc/"
  54. echo
  56. exit 0
  57. fi
  59. dir=$1
  61. if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then
  62. echo "$dir is not a directory"
  63. exit 1
  64. fi
  66. while read status file; do
  67. if [ "$status" = "?" ]; then
  68. res=$( echo "$file" | egrep -o "$skip" )
  69. if [ -z "$res" ]; then
  70. svn add "$file"
  71. fi
  72. fi
  73. done<<EOF
  74. $( svn st "$dir" )
  75. EOF
  77. exit 0

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  1. Fredrik 'jolt' Johansson
    02 August 2007

    So, I just remembered I hadn’t heard from this guy I know back in the old days…

    Hoppas allt är bra med dig! ipoden tyckte att det var dags att spela lite “time waste corporation” och dÃ¥ funderade jag pÃ¥ om du fanns kvar pÃ¥ oebben nÃ¥nstans. Hoppas att allt är gott och du har det bra nere i Linkeboda!

  2. Fredrik 'jolt' Johansson
    02 August 2007

    Sorry for the swedish chars, and by the way, you should really look into git (apt-get install git-core). Nice code management if you have multiple people in a project.

  3. Pontus
    02 August 2007

    How very nice to hear from the man who introduced med to Linux and turned me into a computer nerd ;)

    Man, Time Waste Corporation, those were the days! I don’t even have any TWC songs my self, you have to email them to me :)

    Sorry for the character encoding flaws I’m working on an upgrade of my blog system and hopefully I will fix this.

    I haven’t tried GIT but I know what it is. I, yet, don’t do any collaboration projects but mainly use Subversion for my own needs, tracking my own small projects you know. Plus SVN is available where this site is hosted so I develop on my dev server in the kitchen (where I have slightly older versions of Apache, PHP and so on), check out the project to my dektop where I have new versions of everything (and different settings), make sure most things work properly, commit all changes and then check out the new version on this server (where poppa.se is being hosted). So I think that for my purposes distributed version control isn’t the best. But if it’s good enough for Linus… ;)

    Anyway, nice to hear from you Fredrik, I’ll send you an e-mail!

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