Quick Tip: SVN Filtering

Matt Petrowsky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:20:05 +0000

If you manage your own Drupal servers, and have shell access, one of your most powerful tools for deployment are CVS and SVN. Using the CVS deploy module, you can get rid of that tedious Download to computer -> upload via FTP process.

I found a powerful piece of code on the website of Kathleen Murtagh. The code was optimized by drupal user dgtlmoon. By applying a simple condition, and using the code as a function within .bashrc or .bash_profile, you add some needed functionality when managing a Drupal server (or anything else really) using SVN.

Here's the code you need for your .bashrc in case you already know what's going on. It allows you to pass in regular expressions to be applied to the svn status function. If you supply a second argument, it's used as the SVN option for each of the filtered files. Cool Stuff!

  svngrep()
  {
  # Modified from
  # http://ceardach.com/
    if test -z "$2"; then
      svn status | egrep "${1}" | awk '{print $2}'
    else
      svn ${2} `svn status | egrep "${1}" | awk '{print $2}'`
    fi
  }

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Quick Tip: SVN Filtering