Hi David,
the cause is your shell expanding the * to the list of all files in the directory before invoking the command. So in a directory containing the files foo, bar and baz.txt, the command "svn add *" actually translates to "svn add foo bar baz.txt" before the command is executed. Svn never even sees the star. You'll see a similar behaviour with ignored files being added when using "svn add *".
The proper command is "svn add --force ." which adds all new files under the current directory while still taking ignores into account.
Felix
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Am 27.08.2010 um 21:59 schrieb David H <evolvemeans_at_gmail.com>:
> Subversion Dev team:
>
> Thanks for all your hard work. I just began using subversion and it is great.
>
> Among other things, it is fast.
>
> One complaint.
>
> I'm using a Linux system, fyi.
>
> As a new user it was my expectation that 'svn add *' called from within the root
> of my version-controlled root directory would result in *all* changes that had been
> made within the file system to be scheduled for inclusion on the next commit.
>
> Instead, it ignored a whole raft of new files that were buried in subdirectories.
>
> It took me a while of poking around to find this out.
>
> The behavior I expected was that "svn add *" would schedule a snapshot of the
> entire directory tree. Of course, to actually make this happen, I had to use the "svn add * --force"
> option. It's also worth noting that the option "svn add * --depth infinity" also did not add the files that were
> buried in the subdirectores; they were not added to be included on the next commit.
>
> Why would you have subversion skip a bunch of files? That makes no sense.
>
> The "import" command conversely, adds all the files in all the subdirectories, when a new directory
> is first brought under version control.
>
> It seems to me, the default behavior should be the obvious behavior. Or maybe there
> is more that I don't yet understand. If so, I would like to hear.
>
> Thanks. It is great software.
>
> David Heitzman
>
> --
> Life moves on, whether we act as cowards, or heroes.
Received on 2010-08-27 22:19:46 CEST