SVN Export Only Changed Files

Question

I currently commit files to my SVN server (which is located on my web host), and from there I SSH in and export them to the working directory in my htdocs.

As my application gets larger and larger, a full export is a waste of time. How can I only export the files that have been changed?

svn export -r xxxx:HEAD http://svn/

Is a solution I had found, so maybe this can help? How can I automatically get the revision?

Answer 1

I have been using the following Bash script:

for i in $(svn diff --summarize -r 1:2 http://repo_path | awk '{ print $2 }'); do p=$(echo $i | sed -e 's{http://repo_path/{{'); mkdir -p $(dirname $p); svn export $i $p; done 

Similar to hudolejev's solution, it outputs the changes between revisions (1 and 2) in this case and loops over the files and folders.

Answer 2

This works with the use of Tortoise SVN. I'm not sure it can be done without it.

I had a similar issue where I had made changes to several thousand files (dont ask...it is an inherited problem!) out of 10's of thousands, so I didn't want to upload the whole directory or rely on winscp to correctly match the dates (since this server is in the US and im in AUS).

So I checked-in to SVN then via "Show Log" in Tortoise SVN. I then right-clicked on the most recent revision (although it could be any rev you live) and selected "compare with previous revision". I then selected all the files that appeared (CTRL-A) and right-clicked "export selection to" and BAM all the updated files in correct folder structure are saved and ready for upload.