which svn commands take wildcards on Windows?

["Charles E. Doucette" <cd...@med-learn.com>]

As most of you probably know, the Windows command processor does not do file
name expansion -
that's left to each individual command.

I'm moving a bunch of files in a top-level Subversion working-copy directory
into a subdirectory.

I was hoping that I didn't have to type them all individually.

Apparently, I do.

I didn't think any Subversion commands took wildcards on Windows;
but, I found out that the status command does take wildcards, and at least
the move command does not.

Can someone summarize the commands that do allow wildcards and/or those that
don't?
Could this information be added to the command line help text and/or the
book?

Thanks,
Chuck


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Re: which svn commands take wildcards on Windows?

["C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>]

"Charles E. Doucette" <cd...@med-learn.com> writes:

> As most of you probably know, the Windows command processor does not do file
> name expansion -
> that's left to each individual command.
> 
> I'm moving a bunch of files in a top-level Subversion working-copy directory
> into a subdirectory.
> 
> I was hoping that I didn't have to type them all individually.
> 
> Apparently, I do.
> 
> I didn't think any Subversion commands took wildcards on Windows;
> but, I found out that the status command does take wildcards, and at least
> the move command does not.
> 
> Can someone summarize the commands that do allow wildcards and/or those that
> don't?
> Could this information be added to the command line help text and/or the
> book?

It's not about what takes wildcards and what doesn't.  If you run 'svn
help <subcommand>' you should see which commands accept multiple
targets, wildcards or not.

   $ svn help status
   status (stat, st): Print the status of working copy files and directories.
   usage: status [PATH...]

                      ^^^ See that?  This means more than one path.

   $ svn help move
   move (mv, rename, ren): Move/rename something in working copy or repository.
   usage: move SRC DST

               ^^^^^^^ No ellipsis here.

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