Question

I am trying to remove all the NetBeans related files (nbactions.xml and nb-configuration.xml) from a maven based tree of projects, and add them to svn:ignore in every directory that contains a pom.xml so they are not checked-in again.

As it will be cumbersome to manually do that, I’m trying to write a script to do the dirty work for me, but I’m finding that editing subversion properties is not as batch-friendly as adding a few lines to the good old .cvsignore using shell append redirection >>.

Oh, never mind, I’ve devised a solution while typing this, I’m posting it anyway to not waste the effort and in case something better comes up 🙂

Thanks!

Answer 1

The answer I’ve thought of is to hack the SVN_EDITOR system property to be my update script rather than an interactive editor.

I haven’t tried it yet, but it should be something like:

update_svn_ignore.sh

cat $1 ~/filestoignore.txt | sort | uniq > tmp.txt
mv tmp.txt $1

and to do it in every directory with a pom.xml

export SVN_EDITOR=update_svn_ignore.sh
for PROJDIR in `find -name pom.xml | awk -F"pom.xml" '{print $1}'`; do svn propedit svn:ignore $PROJDIR; done