How do I svn add all unversioned files to SVN

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I m looking for a good way to automatically  svn add  all unversioned files in a working copy to my SVN repository     I have a live server that can create a few files that should be under source control  I would like to have a short script that I can run to automatically add these  instead of going through and adding them one at a time   My server is running Windows Server 2003 so a Unix solution won t work

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This is the lazy and dangerous way to synchronize a directory with SVN including new files:

svn rm --keep-local dir
svn add dir

Although this can work in a pinch it can have serious consequences as well. For example, SVN will often lose track of a file's history.

The ideal way to syncronize a directory would be to be able to diff then use svn patch, however this deviates from formats in the diff command and the svn diff command will compare working directory differences rather than differences on the file system level.

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This is a different question to mine but there is an answer there that belongs on this question   svn status   grep       sed  s      svn add      bash

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I always use   Copy amp paste  svn st   grep         awk   print   2     xargs svn add  1

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TortoiseSVN has this capability built in  if you re willing to use a non-command-line solution  Just right click on the top level folder and select Add

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Since he specified Windows  where awk  amp  sed aren t standard   for  f  tokens 1    e in   svn status  findstr         do svn add   f    or in a batch file   for  f  tokens 1     e in   svn status  findstr         do svn add    f

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This method should handle filenames which have any number combination of spaces in them     svn status  home websites website1   grep -Z        sed s        sed s    space         xargs -i svn add          Here is an explanation of what that command does    List all changed files   Limit this list to lines with     at the  beginning - i e  new files   Remove the     character at the beginning of the line   Remove the spaces at the beginning of the line   Pipe the filenames into xargs to run the svn add multiple times     Use the -i argument to xargs to handle being able to import files names with spaces into  svn add  - basically  -i sets    to be used as a placeholder so we can put the   characters around the filename used by  svn add    An advantage of this method is that this should handle filenames with spaces in them

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Use   svn st   grep     cut -d  -f2   xargs svn add

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What works is this   c  work repo1 gt svn add   --force   Adds the contents of subdirectories   Does not add ignored files   Lists what files were added   The dot in the command indicates the current directory  this can replaced by a specific directory name or path if you want to add a different directory than the current one

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You can use command  svn add   force--   or   svn add  lt directory file name gt    If your files directories are not adding recursively  Then check this   Recursive adding is default property  You can see in SVN book   Issue can be in your ignore list or global properties    I got solution google issue tracker  Check global properties for ignoring star      Right click in your repo in window  Select TortoiseSVN  gt  Properties  See if you don t have a property svn global-ignores with a value of   If you have property with star    then it will ignore recursive adding  So remove this property    Check global ignore pattern for ignoring star      Right click in your repo in window  Select TortoiseSVN  gt  Settings  gt  General  See in Global Ignore Pattern  if you don t have set star    there  If you found star     remove this property    This guy also explained why this property added in my project   The most like way that it got there is that someone right-clicked a file without any extension and selected TortoiseSVN -  SVN Ignore -     recursively   and then committed this       You can check the log to see who committed that property change  find   out what they were actually trying to do  and ask them to be more   careful in future

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I think I ve done something similar with   svn add   --recursive   but not sure if my memory is correct  -p

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If you use Linux or use Cygwin or MinGW in windows you can use bash-like solutions like the following  Contrasting with other similar ones presented here  this one takes into account file name spaces   svn status  grep      while read line   do  svn add   echo  line cut --complement -c 1 2    done

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Since this post is tagged Windows  I thought I would work out a solution for Windows  I wanted to automate the process  and I made a bat file  I resisted making a console exe in C    I wanted to add any files or folders which are not added in my repository when I begin the commit process   The problem with many of the answers is they will list unversioned files which should be ignored as per my ignore list in TortoiseSVN   Here is my hook setting and batch file which does that  Tortoise Hook Script    start commit hook    where I checkout  working copy path   C  Projects command line  C  windows system32 cmd exe  c C  Tools SVN svnadd bat  X  Wait for the script to finish  X   Optional  Hide script while running  X  Always execute the script   svnadd bat   echo off  rem Iterates each line result from the command which lists files folders rem     not added to source control while respecting the ignore list  FOR  F  delims      G IN   svn status    findstr        DO call  DoSVNAdd    G  goto end   DoSVNAdd set addPath  1 rem Remove line prefix formatting from svn status command output as well as rem    quotes from the G call  as required for long folder names   Then rem    place quotes back around the path for the SVN add call  set addPath   addPath  9 -1   svn add  addPath    end

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svn add --force     This will add any unversioned file in the current directory and all versioned child directories

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This worked for me   svn add  svn status     grep        awk   print  2       Source   As you already solved your problem for Windows  this is a UNIX solution  following Sam   I added here as I think it is still useful for those who reach this question asking for the same thing  as the title does not include the keyword  WINDOWS     Note  Feb  2015   As commented by  bdrx   the above command could be further simplified in this way    svn add  svn status     awk         print  2

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svn add --force   --auto-props --parents --depth infinity -q  Great tip  One remark  my Eclipse adds new files to the ignore list automatically  It may be a matter of configuration  but anyhow  there is the --no-ignore option that helps   After this  you can commit   svn commit -m  Adding a file

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for  f  usebackq tokens 2     i in   svn status    findstr  r         do svn add    i   j    Within this implementation  you will get in trouble in the case your folders filenames have more than one space like below    C  PROJECTS BACKUP MGs via SVN TEST-MG-10 data destinations Sega Mega      2   C  PROJECTS BACKUP MGs via SVN TEST-MG-10 data destinations One space   C  PROJECTS BACKUP MGs via SVN TEST-MG-10 data destinations Double  space   C  PROJECTS BACKUP MGs via SVN TEST-MG-10 data destinations Single    such cases are covered by simple   for  f  usebackq tokens 1     i in   svn status    findstr  r         do svn add    j

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After spending some time trying to figure out how to recursively add only some of the files  i thought it would be valid to share what did work for me   FOR  F  F IN   dir  s  b  a d   DO svn add --depth empty   F  FOR  F  F IN   dir  s  b  a   cs   csproj   rpt   xsd   resx   ico   sql   DO svn add   F    Here goes some explanation   The first command adds all the directories  The second command adds only the files accordingly to the specifed patterns   Let me give more details    FOR  you know  the loop control   F  means take the files and directories  not sure exactly    F  its a variable  it will assume the value of each of the listed files at a time  it could have another one-character-name  IN  no need to explain  right    dir  s  b  a d    the DOS command that will list the directories  in my case  s is recursive   b is to take only the full path   a d means only the directory  change it as you wish keeping the parenthesis and apostrophes  DO  means that what comes next in the command is what will be executed for each directory svn add --depth empty  it is the desired SVN commando to be run  the depth definition means to add only the directory and not the files inside them    F   that s how you use the variable defined earlier    In the second command  the only differences are the dir command and the svn command  i think it is clear enough

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This is as documented on svn book and the simplest and works perfect for me  svn add   --force   http   svnbook red-bean com en 1 6 svn ref svn c add html

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You can input the following command on Linux   find    -name        xargs svn add

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