Re: svn up "dry-run"

On May 26, 2011, at 14:52 , Alex Bligh wrote:

> I have a working copy with directories d1..dX in, and a repository to which
> directories occasionally get added, say d1..dY where Y>X (though the
> directory names are not numerical).
>
>> From the working copy, is there any way of telling what directories are
> missing on that working copy? I don't want to do an "svn up", because I
> don't want to lose the current state of d1..dX. I can't do "svn up dY"
> because I don't (yet) know the name(s) of the missing directory/directories
> dY.
>
> What would be perfect is "svn up --dry-run", producing identical output
> to svn up, but not actually doing anything. I could then parse the output
> of that. However, that command doesn't' actually exist.
>
> I suppose I could parse the output of "svn diff -r HEAD" but that
> seems pretty expensive given it's diffing millions of files and
> I only really want the current directory (not subdirectories).
>
> Any ideas?

Have you tried the following?

   svn status --show-updates --depth immediates

It tells you the names of the incoming items that an update would add
to the current working copy directory (as well as items that would be
modified).

Steve

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