Piping "svn st" into "svn commit"

I've got a project that has a config file which I've modified. I want to commit everything I have except the config file. This is the status of svn.

?       web/trunk/webroot/tmp
M       web/trunk/webroot/css/styles.css
M       web/trunk/views/posts/list_all.ctp
M       web/trunk/config/core.php

And this is the command I run.

svn st | grep ? -v | grep config/core.php -v | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs sudo svn commit

But I keep getting this message.

Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: system('/usr/bin/editor svn-commit.tmp') returned 256

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be really appreciated.

EDIT: This is kinda interesting. I echoed the result one and this is what I got.

svn st开发者_运维百科 | grep ? -v | grep gearman -v | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs echo | awk '{ print "sudo svn commit " $0; }'

Output:

sudo svn commit web/trunk/webroot/css/backend.css web/trunk/views/store_subscribers/list_all.ctp

Running the above result manually works fine but when I piped it into sh,

svn st | grep ? -v | grep gearman -v | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs echo | awk '{ print "sudo svn commit " $0; }' | sh

Output:

Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: system('/usr/bin/editor svn-commit.tmp') returned 256

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Try:

sudo svn -q commit

-q is the silent switch and should not force svn to open up the editor to put in a commit message :)

Ideally you should also specify a message via the -m switch

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re06.html

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You can simulate the convenience of xargs with backticks

Instead of:

svn st | grep ? -v | grep config/core.php -v | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs sudo svn commit

You can try:

svn ci `svn st | grep ? -v | grep config/core.php -v | awk '{print $2;}'`

Just drop the xargs command at the end, wrap your query in backticks, and add svn ci to the front of your example.

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Mainly you need to svn add before you svn commit. For example, this doesn't work:

$ touch testfile
$ svn st
$ svn commit testfile -m 'playing with svn'
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: '/cygdrive/c/web/cpoe_ordersets/testfile' is not under version control

But if I remember to svn add it it works.

$ svn add testfile
A         testfile

$ svn commit testfile -m 'playing with svn'
Adding         testfile
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1505.

So you might want to add an svn add command to your pipeline before the commit, or more likely what you really want is to

1. run svn add * --force in the root directory to add all unversioned files, then
2. svn revert config/core.php which you don't want added
3. run svn commit -m "I added some unversioned files" in the root directory to commit all the added files.