see and the subversion command line

Adding many files via the svn add command can be a tedious effort. Especially if they are dispersed over many directories. But here the see command line tool can help. Instead of svn add do

• trim all the lines which you don’t want to add
• select all and do a blockedit to replace the first few characters with a svn add
• then close the window

the closing of the window hands this little snippet over to sh which does a decent job of executing every single svn add line you just left in your text. Much more convenient than adding the files one by one.

Too add even more convenince, I added the following alias to my ~/.bash_profile file. Now I have a convenient little command called svnadd that does a svn st, greps for all lines that begin with a ? (which are the files that may need adding), shows them to me via SubEthaEdit in which I can pick my lines and add the svn add, and sends them to sh when I’m done. Very handy.