renaming multiple directories

[Brian McCann <Br...@viziant.net>]

Hi,
 
does anyone know of a way to rename multiple directories at once in SVN

I know it can be done on a dir by dir basis, but what if you need to do this on hundreds?
 
e.g. rename "test ( today)" strip off "(today) from the dir name to just "test"

Thanks,
Brian
 

Re: renaming multiple directories

[Hari Kodungallur <hk...@gmail.com>]

On 8/30/07, Brian McCann <Br...@viziant.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> does anyone know of a way to rename multiple directories at once in SVN
>
> I know it can be done on a dir by dir basis, but what if you need to do
> this on hundreds?
>
> e.g. rename "test ( today)" strip off "(today) from the dir name to just
> "test"
>
>
Don't think SVN itself has what you are looking for. But you could probably
script it?

regards,
-Hari Kodungallur

Re: renaming multiple directories

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:29, Brian McCann wrote:

> does anyone know of a way to rename multiple directories at once in  
> SVN
>
> I know it can be done on a dir by dir basis, but what if you need  
> to do this on hundreds?
>
> e.g. rename "test ( today)" strip off "(today) from the dir name to  
> just "test"

Nothing in Subversion prevents you from doing this, but nothing in  
Subversion will help you with this either.

You would check out a working copy, then rename the directory ("svn  
mv 'test (today)' 'test'"), do this for all affected directories,  
then commit.

If you don't want to have a working copy, and want to do it at the  
server directly, you can use mucc, the multiple-URL command client,  
to do the renames without a working copy. See:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmucc/ 
svnmucc.c

Since you have hundreds of directories to do, you will probably want  
to write a script of some kind in a language familiar to you to help  
you.




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