Comments on: SVN Tricks http://blog.mwdesigns.com/2009/05/30/svn-tricks/ The story behind all his work Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:40:57 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: ignacio http://blog.mwdesigns.com/2009/05/30/svn-tricks/comment-page-1/#comment-2331 ignacio Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:43:07 +0000 http://blog.mwdesigns.com/?p=7#comment-2331 That's a nice trick to have it as an alias Matt!. May I mention a possible tweak related to this? At my work we have svn sandboxes (copies of the files which could exist independently for testing purposes in our own directories) so I often do have stuff not yet checked into the repository (marked with either "?", "!" or "M"). So instead of "xargs svn add" in such a case you can use "xargs echo svn add". What the echo part does is simply output in lieu of just executing the command. The convenient list of file generated with xargs is at your disposal beforehand giving you a chance to inspect it. At that point we could: a) execute it right away piping it to bash (adding "| bash") b) edit that list generated and exclude those files you want to preserve for being added (checked-in or deleted) to the repository, copy and then run it. Of course this is a tweak that may not apply to your work-flow, but I thought of sharing the use of the echo and bash thing which I found very helpful in general (some examples are here at my post http://ignaciopp.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/pipe-to-bash/ That’s a nice trick to have it as an alias Matt!. May I mention a possible tweak related to this?
At my work we have svn sandboxes (copies of the files which could exist independently for testing purposes in our own directories) so I often do have stuff not yet checked into the repository (marked with either “?”, “!” or “M”). So instead of “xargs svn add” in such a case you can use “xargs echo svn add”.
What the echo part does is simply output in lieu of just executing the command. The convenient list of file generated with xargs is at your disposal beforehand giving you a chance to inspect it. At that point we could:
a) execute it right away piping it to bash (adding “| bash”)
b) edit that list generated and exclude those files you want to preserve for being added (checked-in or deleted) to the repository, copy and then run it.

Of course this is a tweak that may not apply to your work-flow, but I thought of sharing the use of the echo and bash thing which I found very helpful in general (some examples are here at my post http://ignaciopp.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/pipe-to-bash/

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