On 9/18/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 9/18/2006 1:17 AM, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> > I am in the process of writing a wrapper script for 'svn commit' that
> > will allow me to delete paths from the log message that I do not want
> > to commit. I got the idea of this functionality from SVK and
> > immediately saw the usefulness. Several ":q!", <answer "a" to abort
> > questions> later I decided that I HAD to have that functionality.
> >
> > My questions to the list are:
> >
> > How do you typically use 'svn commit' when you have some files you do
> > not want in the commit?
>
> In a case like that I'd almost certainly use TortoiseSVN. It lists all
> the files that it will commit, and allows you to uncheck those which you
> don't want to commit. (There are various convenient ways to select what
> goes in that list in the first place, too.)
>
> It sounds as though you're not using Windows, but I'd suggest taking a
> look at a Windows machine running tsvn before writing your own script:
> they've done a really good job on the user interface.
>
> And if you *are* using Windows, then use TortoiseSVN, don't waste time
> writing a script to do what it does.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> > Do you often run into an issue where you have one file that you do not
> > want to commit, directly beside several that you do?
> > Is the only option in this case manually specifying every file you
> > *do* want to include in the commit? Or am I missing something?
> >
> > It seems to me that this would be a common occurrence and so it really
> > surprises me that a similar wrapper script has not already been
> > written. But perhaps I am using Subversion in an atypical manner?
> >
> > What are your thoughts?
> > Troy
> >
>
>
I am not currently using Windows (thank goodness! :-) ), but I do like
the TortoiseSVN client, at least for browsing and occasional commits.
However, I certainly wouldn't want to fire up a GUI for every commit
(I'm a command line kinda guy).
Grant: The situation that I am refering to is one where you actually
work on two seperate tasks in the same working copy and then need to
commit one as a set, but not the other AND the files are interspersed
throughout the code.
So I actually just finished a rough, working version of my script. I
need to go through and clean it up before I release it for all the
world to see (hopefully sometime tommorrow). It was a great feeling
to delete a file out of a commit within vim! It is written in perl
and currently uses system calls to interact with svn. I would really
have liked to use the perl bindings, but they do not currently support
locking relative to the repository :-(, and it is a feature that I
need.
Troy
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