[TAG] (forw) [ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:05:27PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I wonder if (if the author permits) this might not be run as an article?

I have no objection to running it if he does, but I'm curious: why not
just do 'svn status /etc /boot', or even a little script that would
read the list of entries in SVN and report on them? E.g.,

```
#!/bin/bash

cd /root/svn
svn status `echo *|sed 's|\<|/|g'`
'''

Unless I misunderstood the author's intent, this will do what he wants
without having to hack '.svn/entries'.
 

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