Question

I want to commit all modified files except one using Subversion.

So here is the scenario:

$ svn st
M    file1
M    file2
M    file3
M    file4

I can do something like this:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" file1 file2 file3
svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4

But when a large number of files, I’m trying to simplify my work:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" `svn st | awk '{print $2}' | grep -v file4`
svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4

This solution is very fragile, because this scenario not works:

$ svn st
M    file1
M    file2
D    file3
A +  file4

I think that SVN does not have a built-in solution for my problem, but I’m not sure. Any other approach?

Answer 1

Option 1, AWK:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" `svn st | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -v file4`
svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4

Option 2, –targets:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" --targets filesToCommit.txt
svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4

Option 3, –changelist:

svn changelist my-changelist file1 file2 file3
svn ci -m "Commit 1" --changelist my-changelist
svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4