How do I 'svn add' all unversioned files to SVN?

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I'm looking for a good way to automatically 'svn add' all unversioned files in a working copy to my SVN repository.

I have a live server that can create a few files that should be under source control. I would like to have a short script that I can run to automatically add these, instead of going through and adding them one at a time.

My server is running Windows Server 2003 so a Unix solution won't work.

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This is a different question to mine but there is an answer there that belongs on this question:

svn status | grep '?' | sed 's/^.* /svn add /' | bash
user_171740

TortoiseSVN has this capability built in, if you're willing to use a non-command-line solution. Just right click on the top level folder and select Add...

John_Meagher_35350

You can use command

svn add * force--

or 

svn add <directory/file name>

If your files/directories are not adding recursively. Then check this.

Recursive adding is default property. You can see in SVN book.

Issue can be in your ignore list or global properties.

I got solution google issue tracker

Check global properties for ignoring star(*)

  • Right click in your repo in window. Select TortoiseSVN > Properties.
  • See if you don't have a property svn:global-ignores with a value of *
  • If you have property with star(*) then it will ignore recursive adding. So remove this property.

Check global ignore pattern for ignoring star(*)

  • Right click in your repo in window. Select TortoiseSVN > Settings > General.
  • See in Global Ignore Pattern, if you don't have set star(*) there.
  • If you found star(*), remove this property.

This guy also explained why this property added in my project.

The most like way that it got there is that someone right-clicked a file without any extension and selected TortoiseSVN -> SVN Ignore -> * (recursively), and then committed this.

You can check the log to see who committed that property change, find out what they were actually trying to do, and ask them to be more careful in future. :)

user_68915630

You can input the following command on Linux:

find ./ -name "*." | xargs svn add
user_18650900

Since he specified Windows, where awk & sed aren't standard:

for /f "tokens=1*" %e in ('svn status^|findstr "^\?"') do svn add "%f"

or in a batch file:

for /f "tokens=1*" %%e in ('svn status^|findstr "^\?"') do svn add "%%f"
user_106251740

This is the lazy and dangerous way to synchronize a directory with SVN including new files:

svn rm --keep-local dir
svn add dir

Although this can work in a pinch it can have serious consequences as well. For example, SVN will often lose track of a file's history.

The ideal way to syncronize a directory would be to be able to diff then use svn patch, however this deviates from formats in the diff command and the svn diff command will compare working directory differences rather than differences on the file system level.

user_19182680

I think I've done something similar with:

svn add . --recursive

but not sure if my memory is correct ;-p

user_30550
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