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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by mike nicholaides <mi...@gmail.com> on 2006/05/26 14:45:40 UTC

use svn list to show only directories

Hey guys,

I have a repo with 9500 files and 2300 directories.  I want to get a
list of the just the directories.  I know how to use svn list with a
filter for file name extensions (like svn list *.html), but I don't
know how to do a filter that matches just directories.

I've tried doing just "svn list --recursive", and then filtering out
the directories, but subversion takes far too long to do that.  Would
listing just the directories actually be quicker, like I'm hoping?

Also, I want to avoid using svnlook to do this, because according to
the documentation, you can only use svnlook with a file:// URL.

Any suggestions?

Mike

Re: use svn list to show only directories

Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On May 26, 2006, at 16:45, mike nicholaides wrote:

> I have a repo with 9500 files and 2300 directories.  I want to get a
> list of the just the directories.  I know how to use svn list with a
> filter for file name extensions (like svn list *.html), but I don't
> know how to do a filter that matches just directories.
>
> I've tried doing just "svn list --recursive", and then filtering out
> the directories, but subversion takes far too long to do that.  Would
> listing just the directories actually be quicker, like I'm hoping?

I don't know of a built-in way to do that. Subversion offers language  
bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java and other languages, and  
writing a script in one of those languages using those bindings may  
run significantly faster than parsing output at the command line.


> Also, I want to avoid using svnlook to do this, because according to
> the documentation, you can only use svnlook with a file:// URL.

The documentation should say that svnlook does not work with any URLs  
at all and requires a local filesystem path, as in

svnlook ... /path/to/repository



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