Question

During a recent backup/restore cycle I’ve realized that I managed to omit the ‘tmp’ directories from within the ‘.svn’ directories, and because of this I can’t update my working copies. The problem goes away if I manually create a new, empty ‘tmp’ directory so I am looking for a way to recursively go through each folder, find ‘.svn’ ones and create a ‘tmp’ folder inside them.

As I don’t want to mess up the existing folders I thought I’s ask for help before I did something silly 🙂

Comments/suggestions will be appreciated, thanks!

PS: This is on a Windows machine so sadly Bash and other unix utilities are not present.

Answer 1

Depends on how many there are.

List the directories with

 dir/B/S .svn >dirs.bat

Edit dirs.bat in your editor of choice. Add md at the beginning of each line (since each line begins with something like C: you can use a fairly dumb editor – including notepad – to change C: to md C: ). Add /tmp to the end of each line (replace .svn with .svn\tmp). Save. Run the BAT file

Job done.