SVN updates summary

Question

I have checked out source code from a SVN server, which is not in my control. I would like to know whenever there are new updates available and classify those as modification, new additions etc. Googling led me to believe "svn status --show-updates" was the command I was looking for. However when I run it on the repository root, it does not gives me the A/M flags but just * in status column. Any ideas on how to get this? TIA.

Answer 1

A nice tool for the job is CommitMonitor.

Answer 2

"svn status" shows you whether your working copy has any changes compared to the repository copy that you checked out. the --show-updates flag shows whether updates are available on the server, and the * means that there are.

Edit: Ok, if you can go gui, i use subversive in eclipse, but in order to stay commandline, how about this. What you want sounds similar to a dryrun of a merge... you want to see what all the A,D,M will happen when you update to the HEAD. So try this:

svn merge --dry-run -r BASE:HEAD

Answer 3

svn status --show-updates

will put * in front of every file that changed in repository since last update.

You can see detailed changes between your working copy base (last update) and current repository head using:

svn log --revision BASE:HEAD

Adding option --verbose will list all changed files prepended with M, A etc. Adding option --quiet will hide commit messages.

Update:

svn diff --summarize --revision BASE:HEAD

will list all changed files prepended with M, A etc in all revisions in range collapsed in one list. I guess that's what you're looking for.

Answer 4

Try eSvn. It has a feature to show status of files/directories in real time.