Hi David, the cause is your shell expanding the * to the list of all files in the directory before invoking the command. So in a directory containing the files foo, bar and baz.txt, the command "svn add *" actually translates to "svn add foo bar baz.txt" before the command is executed. Svn never even sees the star. You'll see a similar behaviour with ignored files being added when using "svn add *".
The proper command is "svn add --force ." which adds all new files under the current directory while still taking ignores into account. Felix Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 27.08.2010 um 21:59 schrieb David H <evolveme...@gmail.com>: > Subversion Dev team: > > Thanks for all your hard work. I just began using subversion and it is great. > > Among other things, it is fast. > > One complaint. > > I'm using a Linux system, fyi. > > As a new user it was my expectation that 'svn add *' called from within the > root > of my version-controlled root directory would result in *all* changes that > had been > made within the file system to be scheduled for inclusion on the next commit. > > Instead, it ignored a whole raft of new files that were buried in > subdirectories. > > It took me a while of poking around to find this out. > > The behavior I expected was that "svn add *" would schedule a snapshot of the > entire directory tree. Of course, to actually make this happen, I had to use > the "svn add * --force" > option. It's also worth noting that the option "svn add * --depth infinity" > also did not add the files that were > buried in the subdirectores; they were not added to be included on the next > commit. > > Why would you have subversion skip a bunch of files? That makes no sense. > > The "import" command conversely, adds all the files in all the > subdirectories, when a new directory > is first brought under version control. > > It seems to me, the default behavior should be the obvious behavior. Or maybe > there > is more that I don't yet understand. If so, I would like to hear. > > Thanks. It is great software. > > David Heitzman > > -- > Life moves on, whether we act as cowards, or heroes.
