Re: export every version of every file

> I want to do this automatically for approximately 300 MS-Word documents.
> Some have been checked in 50 times.
...
> How do I do this? (wrap this in a for loop? under MS-Windows?)

You could use a batch file, windows script or NAnt or Ant.

As I prefer NAnt over batch files or windows scripts that's what
I'd use. But if you don't have experience in such tools you may
end up spending 2 days learning them anyway...

Anyway, as a quick'n'dirty guess, the recipe might look like:

1. Call 'svnlook history /repos' using <exec> task, capturing stdout to file
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/exec.html

2. Use <foreach> task to loop over each revision (ignore non-numeric output
on first 2 lines)
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/foreach.html

3. Inside the <foreach> task call 'svnlook changed using repos/changed-path -rX'
using the <exec>, again capturing stdout to another file

4. Create another <foreach> task inside the existing <foreach>, iterating
over the svnlook changed output. That is, for each revision loop over each
changed item. You can use NAnt string functions to help with the parsing.
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/functions/index.html#String

5. If the changed item is what you want (e.g. a word doc), call <exec> once
more to perform the svn export, as you now know the file name and the revision
in question.

As you want multiple repositories i'd make the repository (and path) a NAnt
property which can be parsed via command line. You could also use a NAnt
property to determine the files to be extracted (*.doc).

Hope that helps.

peace
si

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Received on Thu May 25 03:34:36 2006