Question

SVN seem to require me to run

svn add [dir]

if I add a directory in local branch (and whats it to be versioned).
Can I make SVN more clever than this default behavior?

Or is the easiest approach to run

svn add .

in project root before any commit?

regards,
//t

edit:

svn add --force ./*

that is..

Answer 1

Subversion will not track a file unless you instruct it to. That’s by design and I think it’s a good design: it sounds more intuitive to select stuff you want into version control (something that needs to be done once) than to un-select stuff you don’t want (which you’d possibly need to do on every commit ever).

Said that, you might feel more comfortable with a GUI tool since most graphical clients allow to add and commit in a single step.