How To Check If The Local SVN Revision Is Up-To-Date
I've encountered a problem recently where I had to figure out if some checked out code is up-to-date with the svn repository, without actually running svn update. Unfortunately, svn update doesn't have a dry-run option, so I had to find another solution.
I came up with 2, depending on how detailed the information needs to be, which I'm about to share in this post.
1. If you want exact file and directory names, you can run:
svn status -u |
If any files need updating, you will see a * before the file name.
svn status wc M wc/bar.c A + wc/qax.c |
svn status -u wc M 965 wc/bar.c * 965 wc/foo.c A + 965 wc/qax.c Status against revision: 981 |
Or more verbose
svn status --show-updates --verbose wc M 965 938 kfogel wc/bar.c * 965 922 sussman wc/foo.c A + 965 687 joe wc/qax.c 965 687 joe wc/zig.c Status against revision: 981 |
Parsing the output in Perl, for instance, should be trivial. A connection to the repository is established for this check, so be sure to catch in your code the times when such connection is not available.
2. If you only care about whether a specific directory needs to be updated or not, here's a quicker method:
svn info vs svn info -rHEAD
cd somedir; svn info -r HEAD | grep -i "Last Changed Rev" Last Changed Rev: 8544 svn info | grep -i "Last Changed Rev" Last Changed Rev: 8531 |
If these numbers are not the same, an update is needed.
What can I be missing? Are there any other creative ways, or is svn update going to support dry-run? Feel free to leave a comment if you know something I don't.
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