Git has a very useful shortcut to add all files and commit all of them. Let’s see the same approach for subversion over command line interface

Git equivalent

1git add .
2git commit -am "Message"
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git add .
Add all files in this directory
git commit -am "Message"
Commmit the fles

When we do this, all files get added. Unfortunately, same thing does not work with subversion.

Subversion svn add .

If we try to repeat the same with svn, bad things happen 😞

1# This won't work
2svn add .
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This is the warning we get. 😞

1svn: warning: W150002: '~/work/svnco/prj' is already under version control
2svn: E200009: Could not add all targets because some targets are already versioned
3svn: E200009: Illegal target for the requested operation

Subversion working add and removing all files

The correct way to acheive this is 😄

1svn add --force * --auto-props --parents --depth infinity -q
2svn st | grep ^! | awk '{print " --force "$2}' | xargs svn rm
3svn commit -m "The Message"
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