How do I upload a single file from my local computer to a SVN repository?
I can import a directory, but I can't import a single file into existing directory.
I use SVN in linux (command line).
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit:
I forgot to mention, I need to upload this file into a specific directory that has nothing to do with directory structure in my local computer (say I upload from Desktop).
So I want to upload a file from Desktop to https://.../somefolder
This can be done as the OP requires.
svn import -m "Adding a new file" file_to_upload.ext http://example.org/path/to/repo/file_to_upload.ext
This allows uploading a file directly into the repository without checking out to a local working directory.
Well, short answer is that it doesn't work like that :)
In SVN you work with a checked-out revision of your repository. In order to "upload a single file" you have to "add" the file with "svn add foo.txt" and then run "svn commit -m "Added file foo" foo.txt". But you can only do this to an existing repository. Therefore you must first checkout the revision (rev of trunk or a given branch) of the repository to add the file to. So the entire steps would be something like
svn co https://svn.internal.foo.com/svn/mycoolgame/branches/1.81
create your new file in the correct place in the folder structure checked out.
svn add your new file
svn ci -m "added file lalalalala" you new file
After this, you can delete your local copy again.
8-year edit: As mentioned svn import can also be used to accomplish this without having a local copy under version control. Do note though that this does so recursively and will add directories not present in the repository. This could be desired behavior or a source of potential errors depending on the situation.
svn add /path/to/your/file.txt
svn ci /path/to/your/file.txt -m "This is where the message goes"
Or if you havn't added anything else just commit with
svn ci -m "Your message"
svn add filename
svn commit filename
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I'm exporting a file in one folder and moving it to production without performing an change, using this command:
svn export --username user --password passwd --non-interactive --force svn://svnserver.com/trunk/patch/115/sql/TestFile.sql
After the movement I would like to add a comment/tag that file was moved successfully. For this, I tried the commands below but they didn't work:
> svn commit -m " Test" TestFile.sql
svn: '/home//SVNTEST/1' is not a working copy
> svn commit -m "Test" svn://svnserver.com/trunk/patch/115/sql/TestFile.sql
svn: Must give local path (not URL) as the target of a commit
Will it be possible if yes how to do so?
To summarize, you're copying a file from the repository to your local machine, then you want to somehow indicate in the repository that this action happened.
Without knowing more about your setup, I think creating a tag is probably the most straightforward way to do this. Use this command:
svn copy svn://svnserver.com/trunk/ svn://svnserver.com/tags/115 -m "Test"
Use whatever unique key for the tag name (here I used '115' since it seemed like that was a patch identifier).
Let's discuss why the commands you tried did not work.
Since you're exporting rather than checking out the file, you don't have a working copy. Exporting is basically equivalent to downloading a file from an HTTP or FTP server; there are no strings attached.
Now, the subcommand commit requires a working copy (in order to know where in the repository to put your local changes), which explains why in the first command you tried the error indicated you aren't in a working copy. The second command errored because you (I think) are trying to tell SVN the remote location to upload your local TestFile.sql, which is not a valid use-case for the commit subcommand.
My suggestion creates a tag, but does so entirely on the server which means you don't need a working copy.
I am extremely new to SVN, I am using SVN on Mac OS terminal. I have a file on my laptop that I want to transfer to my repository on my remote server.
This is what I have done:
I have checked out the repository. It says "checked out revision *".
I have used cd until the folder that I want to insert the file. So at this point I have a path like: (...../src/soln$) so I want to insert the file in the 'soln' folder.
When I try:
svn add ('...../lo.java') (the path to my file on my computer) it says:
('....../src/soln/') is not a working copy
svn import ...../lo.java it brought something weird to the screen
Please help me figure out what I am doing wrong or not doing.
The error indicates that the parent is not yet in svn. Try to svn add each folder above lo.java.
As an example if the repo root is at /path/to/my/repo and your file is in /path/to/my/repo/src/soln/lo.java then you'll not only want to svn add lo.java from inside the soln directory, but you'll also want to svn add /path/to/my/repo/src and then svn add /path/to/my/repo/src/soln before you can perform the svn add lo.java
I've added a new file (pdf) to a directory and when I try and commit the new file it is saying that it is not under version control, the directory and every other file in the directory is under version control as when I tried svn add * it listed all the files as being under version control.
What is causing this problem and how do I fix it?
EDIT: OK I am now able to add the file, am I right in saying that the svn add * command added this file under version control thus allowing me to commit the file?
Yes, the svn add * did that.
You have to svn add Name_of_File any new files before you can svn commit them.
you can try something like this...
in the checkout directory run this command
svn add . --force
then just commit it all
svn commit -m "your text" *
In some cases the add command doesn't do it, and still gives an error. the best thing is to perform the svn cleanup [PATH...] command then try to add or commit.
I am using Subversion to manage my python code. But I have no idea how to put the file properties of my configuration file.
For example I have the configuration file checked in on my development platform. I want to make sure that
After the configuration file is being checked out. The SVN up process should ignore the modified configuration file.
On the server side I have the golden configuration file. Therefore the SVN commit should ignore the configuration file as well.
I have no idea how to set the properties of the configuration file so I am seeking help here.
Thanks in advance
This comes up enough that it's in the Subversion FAQ
Short version: Create (and version) a "template" configuration file. Users check out a WC, make a filesystem local (not svn) copy which is to be ignored by Subversion, and then modify that copy.
You might want to look at my pre-commit hook.
But first, uou need to remove that configuration file from your Subversion repository. Instead, add a configuration template that developers can copy and use.
Once you remove the configuration file from your repository, you want to set svn:ignore to ignore it. This way, it doesn't accidentally get added if a user does a svn add * or sees it when they do a svn status.
However, if you want to be absolutely certain that this configuration file is never added to the project, you need a pre-commit hook that will refuse a commit if a user does add it.
Why don't you tell SVN to ignore the file?
$ cd path/to/config/file
$ svn delete --keep-local config.file
$ svn propset svn:ignore config.file
$ svn commit
What this does is first tell SVN that it should stop tracking the file (svn delete), then we set the svn:ignorepoperty on the directory in which the file resides, and then we commit these changes.
If you still want the configuration file to be tracked by SVN, then you can either commit your changes excluding the modifications on the file, or external the file in and be sure to ignore externals when committing.
i have created a local repository(svn) on my server.
we do svn update on the repository to fetch the recent drivers(code).The files recieved are in the below form.
goto code base and do svn update
create a url to this code base and take the files into a log so as to print dynamic messages when you do an svn delete and svn import saying that particular file/files have been imported/deleted.
third step is to delete a few files from the repository. svn delete.
svn import
svn import . file:///home/head/input/exrep/ -m "sync operation from abcrepos" > $file`;
svn del file:///opt/svn/trunk/input/hyrep/exrep/www/js/nvm/nvmgraph.js -m "removing javascript"
need a shell script to do the following automatically
problem-into my local repository i always need to do svn import and delete. when new additions are made into the original repo it says "file existing" and will not replace the file with new contents.so script to do above steps to automate the svn update,svn delete and svn import.
You will want to use a "Vendor Branch" instead (see the documentation). There are scripts and tools to support you mentioned in the docs.