Not a huge deal, but I spent a while fighting with various svn errors and finally figured it out.
Unlike distributed VCS, svn relies on clients and a server repo to handle source code. So if a svn 1.3.1 client checks out code the .svn folders are created using that version.
When a 1.6.11 svn client comes a long and tries to do an update from a 1.6.11 server repo the svn client major differences can cause problems.
Such as:
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Recently I needed to add thousands of files to an existing repository, but every time I tried svn add * or the svn import functionality I got the error:
svn: Argument list too long
I finally found help with this link but it did not work with file names with spaces.
So below I take the substring of the output in spaces and ? from the whole line before adding the file.
svn status | grep "^?" | awk '{ print substr($0,9,length($0))}' | while read f; do svn add "$f"; done
I’m sure more can be done to make this better, but this did the job I needed. For example using ls to import to svn would be helpful. For now this only works when svn status can be executed.
I think find is the best way to do this, with regex support; but again I just hacked my way to the finish line.
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