SVN_LOAD_DIRS(1)					      General Commands Manual						  SVN_LOAD_DIRS(1)

NAME

       svn_load_dirs - Load directories into a Subversion repository

SYNOPSIS

       svn_load_dirs [options] svn_url svn_import_dir [directory ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  can	be  used  for  importing  one  or  more directories into a Subversion repository. The difference from "svn import" is that
       svn_load_dirs can update an existing directory tree, and tag it properly. Only changes from the previous version will be  recorded  in  the
       revision,  so  that  you  can  easily apply them on another branch.  For example, this is very useful for managing the upstream source when
       maintaining Debian packages in Subversion.

OPTIONS

       svn_url
	      The base Subversion URL.

       svn_import_dir
	      The path relative to svn_url where the directories are to be imported.

       directory ...
	      The directories to import. If they are not specified on the command line, they are read from standard input.

       -no_user_input
	      Don't ask any questions. Assume that the answer is yes.

       -p filename
	      Apply the properties specified in the configuration file filename to matching files. See below for a description of  the	configura-
	      tion file format.

       -svn_username username
	      Username to use when committing to the repository.

       -svn_password password
	      Password to use when committing to the repository.

       -t tag_dir
	      Create  a tag copy in tag_dir, relative to svn_url. tag_dir may contain a regular expression enclosed within '@' characters. It will
	      be replaced by the matching part from the imported directory names.

       -v     Be more verbose. Use multiple times for increased effect.

       -wc path
	      Use the already checked out working copy at path instead of checking out a new working copy.

PROPERTY CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT

       The property configuration file, which is specified by the -p option, contains rules for applying properties to	the  imported  files.	It
       consists of lines of the following format:

       regular_expression  control   property_name  property_value

       The meaning of the fields are:

       regular_expression
	      A Perl-style regular expression matching the files to apply this rule to.

       control
	      Either  "break"  or "cont". If set to "break", processing of the current file will stop if this rule matches. If set to "cont", pro-
	      cessing will continue. The latter can be used to set multiple properties for one file.

       property_name
	      (Optional) The name of the property to set.

       property_value
	      (Optional) Set the property to this value.

       The last two fields may be omitted, in which case the rule will not set any properties. This is useful for  excluding  certain  files  from
       subsequent rules.

       You  need to quote the regular_expression, property_name and property_value fields with double quotes ('"') if you have whitespace in them.
       Single and double quotes can be escaped with backslash ('').

EXAMPLES

       For example, to import the contents of the foo-1.3 directory into the upstream/current directory of the foo repository:

       svn_load_dirs svn+ssh://svn.example.org/svn/foo upstream/current foo-1.3

       A tag can also be added automatically using the -t option:

       svn_load_dirs svn+ssh://svn.example.org/svn/foo -t 'upstream/@d+.w+@' upstream/current foo-1.3

       Here's an example of a property configuration file:

       .doc$		   break     svn:mime-type  application/msword
       .ds(p|w)$	   break     svn:eol-style  CRLF
       .dos2unix-eol.sh$ break
       .*		   break     svn:eol-style  native

       This example specifies that .doc files are to be treated as binary files, that .dsp and .dsw files have their line ending characters  kept,
       and that all other files except dos2unix-eol.sh have their line endings converted to the native style.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/subversion-tools/svn_load_dirs.README.gz

       svn(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written by Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se> for the Debian distribution (but may be used by others). Some parts were
       taken from the README.

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