Re: renaming multiple directories

On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:29, Brian McCann wrote:

> does anyone know of a way to rename multiple directories at once in
> SVN
>
> I know it can be done on a dir by dir basis, but what if you need
> to do this on hundreds?
>
> e.g. rename "test ( today)" strip off "(today) from the dir name to
> just "test"

Nothing in Subversion prevents you from doing this, but nothing in
Subversion will help you with this either.

You would check out a working copy, then rename the directory ("svn
mv 'test (today)' 'test'"), do this for all affected directories,
then commit.

If you don't want to have a working copy, and want to do it at the
server directly, you can use mucc, the multiple-URL command client,
to do the renames without a working copy. See:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmucc/
svnmucc.c

Since you have hundreds of directories to do, you will probably want
to write a script of some kind in a language familiar to you to help
you.

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Received on Thu Aug 30 22:30:27 2007