Using TortoiseSVN via the command line

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I want to use commandline SVN options  I use TortoiseSVN  and I run several commands and I get the following error       svn  is not recognized as an internal or external command   I used the command  svn checkout  -N   --ignore-externals   -r rev  URL PATH   I think I should add some environment variable or something else   What should I do or can t TortoiseSVN be used from the command line

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After selecting  SVN command line tools  it will become like this

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As Joey pointed out  TortoiseSVN has a commandline syntax of its own   Unfortunately it is quite ugly  if you are used to svn commands  and it ignores the current working directory  thus it is not very usable - except for scripting   I have created a little Python program  tsvn  which mimics the svn commandline syntax as closely as possible and calls TortoiseSVN accordingly   Thus  the difference between calling the normal commandline tools and calling TortoiseSVN is reduced to a little letter t at the beginning   My tsvn program is not yet complete but already useful  It can be found in the cheeseshop  https   pypi python org pypi tsvn

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My solution was to use DOSKEY to set up some aliases to for the commands I use the most   DOSKEY svc TortoiseProc exe  command commit  path   DOSKEY svu TortoiseProc exe  command update  path   DOSKEY svl TortoiseProc exe  command log  path   DOSKEY svd TortoiseProc exe  command diff  path      Google  doskey persist  for tips on how to set up a  cmd file that runs every time you open the command prompt like a   rc file in Unix

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To enable svn run the TortoiseSVN installation program again  select  Modify   Allows users to change the way features are installed  and install  command line client tools

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By default TortoiseSVN always has a GUI  Graphical User Interface  associated with it  But on the installer  of version 1 7 and later  you can select the  command line client tools  option so you can call svn commands  like svn commit and svn update  from the command line   Here s a screenshot of the  command line client tools  option in the installer  you need to make sure you select it

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After some time  I used this workaround      at the  bat file   SET  CHECKOUT http   yoururl url   SET  PATH your folder path   start  C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin  svn exe checkout  CHECKOUT   PATH

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There is a confusion that is causing a lot of TortoiseSVN users to use the wrong command line tools when they actually were looking for svn exe command line client      What should I do or can t TortoiseSVN be used from the command line    svn exe  If you want to run Subversion commands from the command prompt  you should run the svn exe command line client  TortoiseSVN 1 6 x and older versions did not include SVN command-line tools  but modern versions do   If you want to get SVN command line tools without having to install TortoiseSVN  check the SVN binary distributions page or simply download the latest version from VisualSVN downloads page   If you have SVN command line tools installed on your system  but still get the error  svn  is not recognized as an internal or external command  you should check  PATH  environment variable   PATH  must include the path to SVN tools directory e g  C  Program Files  x86  VisualSVN bin   TortoiseProc exe  Apart from svn exe  TortoiseSVN comes with TortoiseProc exe that can be called from command prompt  In most cases  you do not need to use this tool  because it should be only used for GUI automation  TortoiseProc exe is not a replacement for SVN command-line client

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In case you have already installed the TortoiseSVN GUI and wondering how to upgrade to command line tools  here are the steps      Go to Windows Control Panel   Program and Features  Windows 7   Locate TortoiseSVN and click on it  Select  Change  from the options available  Refer to this image for further steps    After completion of the command line client tools  open a command prompt and type svn help to check the successful install

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To use command support you should follow this steps    Define Path in Environment Variables    open  System Properties   on the tab  Advanced  click on the  Environment Variables  button in the section  System variables  select  Path  option and click  edit  append variable value with the path to TortoiseProc exe file  for example   C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin  Since you have registered TortoiseProc  you can use it in according to TortoiseSVN documentation   Examples   TortoiseProc exe  command commit                   path  c  svn wc file1 txt c  svn wc file2 txt                    logmsg  test log message   closeonend 0  TortoiseProc exe  command update  path  c  svn wc    closeonend 0  TortoiseProc exe  command log  path  c  svn wc file1 txt                    startrev 50  endrev 60  closeonend 0   P S  To use friendly name like  svn  instead of  TortoiseProc   place  svn bat  file in the directory of  TortoiseProc exe   There is an example of svn bat   TortoiseProc exe  1  2  3

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You can have both TortoiseSVN and the Apache Subversion command line tools installed   I usually install the Apache SVN tools from the VisualSVN download site  https   www visualsvn com downloads    Once installed  place the Subversion bin in your set PATH   Then you will be able to use TortoiseSVN when you want to use the GUI  and you have the proper SVN command line tools to use from the command line

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My fix for getting SVN commands was to copy  exe and  dll files from the TortoiseSVN directory and pasting them into system32 folder   You could also perform the command from the TortoiseSVN directory and add the path of the working directory to each command  For example   C  Program Files TortoiseSVN bin gt  svn st -v C  checkout   Adding the bin to the path should make it work without duplicating the files  but it didn t work for me

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TortoiseSVN has a command-line interface that can be used for TortoiseSVN GUI automation and it s different from the normal Subversion one   You can find information about the command-line options of TortoiseSVN in the documentation  Appendix D  Automating TortoiseSVN  The main program to work with here is TortoiseProc exe    But a note pretty much at the top there already says      Remember that TortoiseSVN is a GUI client  and this automation guide shows you how to make the TortoiseSVN dialogs appear to collect user input  If you want to write a script which requires no input  you should use the official Subversion command line client instead     Another option would be that you install the Subversion binaries  Slik SVN is a nice build  and doesn t require a registration like Collabnet   Recent versions of TortoiseSVN also include the command-line client if you choose to install it

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