How do I add all new files to SVN

I am using an ORM which generates large amounts of files from a CLI. Is there an easy way to run the svn add on all files within a directory which appear as ? when I run svn status?

Edit These files exist in a directory tree so adding * for one directory will not work.

This will add all unknown (except ignored) files under the specified directory tree:

svn add --force path/to/dir

This will add all unknown (except ignored) files in the current directory and below:

svn add --force .

For reference, these are very similar questions.

These seem to work the best for me. They also work with spaces, and don't re-add ignored files. I didn't see them listed on any of the other answers I saw.

adding:

svn st | grep ^? | sed 's/?    //' | xargs svn add

removing:

svn st | grep ^! | sed 's/!    //' | xargs svn rm

Edit: It's important to NOT use "add *" if you want to keep your ignored files, otherwise everything that was ignored will be re-added.

you can just do an svn add path/to/dir/* you'll get warning about anything already in version control but it will add everything that isn't.

svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add

Taken from somewhere on the web but I've been using it for a while and it works well.

If svn add whatever/directory/* doesn't work, you can do it the tough way:

svn st | grep ^\? | cut -c 2- | xargs svn add

You should be able to run:

svn add *

It may complain about the files that are already under version control, but it will also add the new ones.

You may want to think about whether or not you really want to add these generated files to version control, though. They could be considered derived artifacts, sort of like the compiled code, and thus shouldn't be added. Of course, this is up to you, but its something to think about.

The solution

svn status | grep ^? | sed 's/?    //' | xargs svn add

does not work with whitespaces. Instead one can use

svn status | grep ^? | sed 's/^?       //' | xargs -I fn svn add "fn"

(seems like the number of leading blanks is different on my system -- just adjust it).

svn add *

should do the job. Just make sure to:

svn commit

afterwards :)

On Alpine Linux OS I used this, based on others answers:

svn st | grep ^? | sed 's/? *//' | xargs -I fn svn add "fn"

In some shells like fish you can use the ** globbing to do that:

svn add **

svn status | grep "^\?" | awk '{ printf("\""); for (f=2; f <= NF; f++) { printf("%s", $f); if (f<NF) printf(" "); } printf("\"\n");}' | xargs svn add

This was based on markb's answer... and a little hunting on the internet. It looks ugly, but it seems to work for me on OS X (including files with spaces).

This add all unversioned files even if it contains spaces

svn status | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' | xargs -i svn add "{}"

I like these commands as they use svn status to find the new or missing files, which respects files that are ignored.

svn add $( svn status | sed -e '/^?/!d' -e 's/^?//' )

svn rm $( svn status | sed -e '/^!/!d' -e 's/^!//' )

Among bash one-liner I think this is the prettiest:

svn status | tee >(awk '/^?/{print $2}' | xargs -r svn add >&2) | awk '/^!/{print $2}' | xargs -r svn delete

It will add all new files and delete all missing files. Use with caution, possibly set an alias for quick access.

NOTE for Macs: in xargs -r is a GNU extension: it might not be supported. In that case just remove it and ignore warnings when there are no files to add or to delete

I am a newbie to svn version control. However, for the case when people want to add files without ignoring the already set svn:ignore properties, I solved the issue as below

1. svn add --depth empty path/to/directory
2. Execute "svn propset svn:ignore -F ignoreList.txt --recursive" from the location where the ignoreList.txt resides. In my case this file was residing two directories above the "path/to/directory", which I wanted to add. Note that ignoreList.txt contains the file extensions I want svn to ignore, e.g. *.aux etc.
3. svn add --force path/to/directory/.

The above steps worked.