From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T22:24:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] svn_auto_add

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 21:31:21 +0900, Michael Weller wrote:

> I wrote a little script for svn users. It will detect any file added to 
> a working copy which svn doesn't know about. In other words: it calls 
> 'svn add' for any newly added file.
> I thought I share it,just in case it might be helpful to somebody... (I 
> actually don't think so because I'm a Nuby and everybody could write 
> this script, but you never know :-)

  [snip code]

> If somebody reads the script and thinks "Why is he doing this that way?"
> feel free to comment, I'm always open for improvements...

I wonder whether it might be simpler to just ask the command line tool
what files it doesn't know about (which will take into account the
relevant ignore settings for *.o, *.class etc). For example:

$ svn status
?      somefile
?      otherfile
M      modifiedfile

By looking for lines that begin with a '?', we get precisely the list that
needs to be added. These lines could be turned into the appropriate 'svn
add' commands.

One way (not particularly pleasant to look at) using ruby would be:

$ svn status | ruby -ne 'puts $_[7..-2] if $_[0] == ??'

to actually run the 'svn add' command you could use:

$ svn status | ruby -e 'system("svn","add",$_[7..-2]) if $_[0] == ??'

I think I would normally do it with a shell pipeline, since I find it
easier to compose the simpler steps than come up with the ruby script for
the whole thing:

$ svn add `svn status | grep '^?' | cut -c8-`
 (assuming no spaces in the names of the files to be added)

Hope this makes sense!