For the archives... I ended up going the "svn stat | grep ^X" approach. It's a Perl script but I chose not to add the dependency on the SVN bindings and instead stick with built-in features. The recursive operation of "svn stat" means I only needed to run it once. Worked well.
Thanks for the advice, P On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Alternatively: > > 1. Run `svn status | grep ^X` to get all the entries in the working copy that > are svn:externals. > 2. Ignore them as you traverse across the paths. > > While reading the svn:externals directly is also a good idea, you'd have to > do that for every directory you enter into, since they are namespace specific. > The nice thing about `svn status| grep ^X` is that it will traverse the > entire working copy and tell you about ALL svn:externals - even those inside > of the svn:externals. > > SVN's bindings may provide some better help in there, so definitely look at > those too as there may be yet a better solution. > > BRM > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Christian Unger <christian.un...@me.com> >> To: users@subversion.apache.org >> Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:09:09 PM >> Subject: Re: detect externals in script >> >> doesn't `svn pget svn:externals` suffice? > > you probably want to look at >> subversion's bindings - depending on the scripting language you're >> using > > > On 23.06.2010, at 20:56, Paul Dugas wrote: > >> I'm >> looking for a way for a script operating on a working directory to >> >> identify directories that were pulled in via an svn:external. The >> >> script is in the top-level folder of the project and is used to >> maintain >> the common file headers for the project and I'd like it to >> not recurse >> down into externals. >> >> Thanks in advance for suggestions, >> >> >> Paul > > __ > cu > christian unger >
