Question

I am seeing noob developers forget to check in modified files into a SVN repository. They check in only some files and leave out others!! Clearcase made it easy to see all the modified repository files. What is the equivalent command(s) in SVN which will let a noob developer see all the modified files (so all files can be checked in) ?

EDIT: Does anyone know how to do “svn -q status” in “Tortoise Subversion” which most developers use?

Answer 1

Per the relevant chapter in the SVN Manual, svn status shows you all the file and tree changes you have made.

If you have a lot of generated directories and files, that output can get a little busy, so I tend to use svn status -q which suppresses inclusion of ignored and non-versioned files.

It is generally good practice to do your checkins at the root of your working copy as a batch (to aggregate your changes in a single revision number). From the root of the working copy, svn ci will recursively select all of the changed files for commit. That should help avoid forgetting files.