SVN-Buddy is a command-line tool, that was created to drastically simplify Subversion-related development tasks performed on a daily basis from command line.

The Git users will also feel right at home, because used terminology (commands/options/arguments) was inspired by Git.

Almost each of commands described below accepts path argument to specify working copy path. This allows to work with several working copies without the need to cd to each of them.

This command allows to change configuration settings, that are used by other commands.

Some of the commands (merge, log, conflicts and aggregate) also use central data store (located in ~/.svn-buddy/config.json file) to store information about a working copy.

• If nothing is stored for a given working copy, then a global default would be used.
• If global default is missing, then built-in default would be used.
• Both working copy and global settings are configurable.

The association between setting values and a working copy is done using working copy url. Such approach allows to preserve setting values, when working copy is moved to different location on disk.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• -s, --show=SETTING - Shows only given (instead of all) setting value
• -e, --edit=SETTING - Change setting value in the Interactive Editor
• -d, --delete=SETTING - Delete setting
• -g, --global - Operate on global instead of working copy-specific settings

Feel free to add --global option to any of examples below to operate on global settings instead of working copy ones.

svn-buddy.phar config

Shows values of all settings in current working copy:

svn-buddy.phar config --show merge.source-url

Shows value of a merge.source-url setting:

svn-buddy.phar config --edit merge.source-url

Change value of a merge.source-url setting using interactive editor.

svn-buddy.phar config --delete merge.source-url

Delete a merge.source-url setting.

This command shows the log messages for a set of revisions.

What makes this command really shine (compared to svn log command) is:

• speed - the revision information from repository is cached locally and therefore it's accessed blazingly fast
• revision search - revisions can not only be found by path and number, but also using ref (e.g. trunk or tags/stable) and a bug number
• revision filtering - when found, revisions can be filtered further by their merge status (merged, not merged, is merge revision by itself)
• detailed revision information - different information about revision is available and can be shown using set of built-in views: compact view, summary view, detailed view, merge conflict prediction view, merge status view

The revision is considered merged only, when associated merge revision can be found. Unfortunately Subversion doesn't create merge revisions on direct path operations (e.g. replacing tags/stable with trunk) and therefore affected revisions won't be considered as merged when using this command.

Bugs, associated with each revision, are determined by parsing bugtraq:logregex Subversion property at the root folder of last changed ref in a project. The assumption is made, that Subversion project won't move to a different issue tracker and therefore value of bugtraq:logregex Subversion property is cached forever.

The working copy revision row is highlighted in bold in revision list to ease identifying of outdated working copies.

• path - Working copy path or URL [default: "."]

• -r, --revisions=REVISIONS - List of revision(-s) and/or revision range(-s), e.g. 53324, 1224-4433
• -b, --bugs=BUGS - List of bug(-s), e.g. JRA-1234, 43644
• --refs=REFS - List of refs, e.g. trunk, branches/branch-name, tags/tag-name or all for all refs
• --merges - Show merge revisions only
• --no-merges - Hide merge revisions
• --merged - Shows only revisions, that were merged at least once
• --not-merged - Shows only revisions, that were not merged
• --merged-by=MERGED-BY - Show revisions merged by list of revision(-s) and/or revision range(-s)
• --action=ACTION - Show revisions, whose paths were affected by specified action, e.g. A, M, R, D
• --kind=KIND - Show revisions, whose paths match specified kind, e.g. dir or file
• --author=AUTHOR - Show revisions, made by a given author
• -f, --with-full-message - Shows non-truncated commit messages
• -d, --with-details - Shows detailed revision information, e.g. paths affected
• -s, --with-summary - Shows number of added/changed/removed paths in the revision
• --with-refs - Shows revision refs
• --with-merge-oracle - Shows number of paths in the revision, that can cause conflict upon merging
• --with-merge-status - Shows merge revisions affecting this revision
• --max-count=MAX-COUNT - Limit the number of revisions to output
• -a, --aggregate - Aggregate displayed revisions by bugs

• log.limit - maximal number of displayed revisions (defaults to 10)
• log.message-limit - maximal width (in symbols) of Log Message column (defaults to 68)
• log.merge-conflict-regexps - list of regular expressions for path matching inside revisions ( used to predict merge conflicts, when --with-merge-oracle option is used)

By default ref (e.g. trunk) to display revisions for is detected from current working copy. To avoid need to keep different working copies around add --refs X (e.g. --refs branches/branch-name) to display revisions from specified ref(-s) of a project.

All --with-... options can be combined together to create more complex views.

svn-buddy.phar log

Displays all revisions without filtering:

• the number of displayed revisions is always limited to value of log.limit configuration setting
• the total number revisions is also displayed (when relevant) to indicate how much more revisions aren't shown

svn-buddy.phar log --max-count 5

Displays all revisions without filtering, but limited by --max-count option value.

svn-buddy.phar log --revisions 10,7,34-36,3

Displays 3, 7, 10, 34, 35 and 36 revisions. Any combination of revision(-s)/revision range(-s) can be used.

svn-buddy.phar log --bugs JRA-10,6443

Displays revisions associated with JRA-10 and 6443 bugs.

svn-buddy.phar log --refs branches/5.2.x,releases/5.2.1

Displays revisions retrieved from branches/5.2.x and releases/5.2.1 refs. The valid refs formats are:

• trunk
• branches/branch-name
• tags/tag-name
• releases/release-name

svn-buddy.phar log --refs all

Displays revisions retrieved from all refs in a project.

svn-buddy.phar log --action D

Displays revisions, where at least one path (directory or file) was deleted.

svn-buddy.phar log --kind dir

Displays revisions, where at least one affected path was a directory.

svn-buddy.phar log --action D --kind dir

Displays revisions, where at least one affected path was a directory at least one path (directory or file) was deleted, but this isn't guaranteed to be the same path.

svn-buddy.phar log --merges

Displays only merge revisions.

svn-buddy.phar log --no-merges

Displays all, but merge revisions.

svn-buddy.phar log --merged

Displays only merged revisions.

svn-buddy.phar log --not-merged

Displays all, but merged revisions.

svn-buddy.phar log --merged-by 12,15-17

• Displays revisions merged by 12, 15, 16 and 17 revisions.

svn-buddy.phar log --with-full-message

The log message won't be truncated in displayed revision list.

svn-buddy.phar log --with-details

Displays detailed information about revisions:

svn-buddy.phar log --with-summary

Compact alternative to --with-details option where only totals about made changes in revisions are shown in separate column:

svn-buddy.phar log --with-refs

Displays refs, affected by each revision:

svn-buddy.phar log --with-merge-oracle

Shows how much paths in each revision can (but not necessarily will) cause conflicts when will be merged:

The log.merge-conflict-regexps configuration setting needs to be specified before Merge Oracle can be used. This can be done using following commands:

• globally: svn-buddy.phar config --edit log.merge-conflict-regexps --global
• in a working copy: svn-buddy.phar config --edit log.merge-conflict-regexps

Once Interactive Editor opens enter regular expression (one per line) used to match a path (e.g. #/composer\\.lock$# matches to a composer.lock file in any sub-folder).

In above image there are 2 revisions and each of them contain 1 path (detected using configuration setting defined above) that might result in a conflict.

svn-buddy.phar log --with-merge-oracle --with-details

Displays changed paths in each revision, but also highlights potentially conflicting paths (from merge oracle) with red:

svn-buddy.phar log --with-merge-status

For each displayed revision also displays revision responsible for merging it (with merge revision ref):

This command merges changes from another project or ref within same project into a working copy.

The merges performed outside of SVN-Buddy are detected automatically (thanks to svn mergeinfo being used internally).

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• --source-url=SOURCE-URL - Merge source url (absolute or relative) or ref name, e.g. branches/branch-name
• -r, --revisions=REVISIONS - List of revision(-s) and/or revision range(-s) to merge, e.g. 53324, 1224-4433 or all
• --exclude-revisions=EXCLUDE-REVISIONS - List of revision(-s) and/or revision range(-s) not to merge, e.g. 53324, 1224-4433
• -b, --bugs=BUGS - List of bug(-s) to merge, e.g. JRA-1234, 43644
• --exclude-bugs=EXCLUDE-BUGS - List of bug(-s) not to merge, e.g. JRA-1234, 43644
• --merges - Show merge revisions only
• --no-merges - Hide merge revisions
• -f, --with-full-message - Shows non-truncated commit messages
• -d, --with-details - Shows detailed revision information, e.g. paths affected
• -s, --with-summary - Shows number of added/changed/removed paths in the revision
• --update-revision=UPDATE-REVISION - Update working copy to given revision before performing a merge
• --auto-commit=AUTO-COMMIT - Automatically perform commit on successful merge, e.g. yes or no
• --record-only - Mark revisions as merged without actually merging them
• --reverse - Rollback previously merged revisions
• -a, --aggregate - Aggregate displayed revisions by bugs
• -p, --preview - Preview revisions to be merged

• merge.source-url - the default url to merge changes from
• merge.auto-commit - whatever to automatically perform a commit on successful merge (used, when --auto-commit option not specified)

The --source-url option can be used with any of below examples to merge from that url instead of guessing it. The source url can be specified using:

• absolute url: svn://domain.com/path/to/project/branches/branch-name
• relative url: ^/path/to/project/branches/branch-name
• ref: branches/branch-name or tags/tag-name or trunk

svn-buddy.phar merge

The above command does following:

1. only, when --source-url option isn't used

• detects merge source url
• when not detected ask to use --source-url option to specify it manually
• when detected, then store it into merge.source-url configuration setting

2. determines unmerged revisions between working copy and detected merge source url
3. displays the results (no merge is performed):

• number of unmerged revisions/bugs
• status of previous merge operation
• list of unmerged revisions

svn-buddy.phar merge --revisions 5,3,77-79

Does all of above and attempts to merge specified revisions into a working copy. As the merge progresses the output of svn merge command is shown back to user in real-time (no buffering).

Revisions are merged one by one, because:

• the results are displayed back to user much faster, then when merging several revisions in one go
• conflict resolution is much easier, because exact revision that caused conflict is already known

The specified revisions to be merged are automatically sorted chronologically.

Only 2 outcomes from above command execution are possible:

• the merge was successful - nothing extra, except svn merge command output is displayed
• the conflict happened during the merge or conflicting path existed prior the merge - the above shown error screen is displayed and conflicted paths are stored in conflicts.recorded-conflicts configuration setting

The error screen shows:

• the svn merge command output (if was executed)
• the list of conflicted paths
• for each path the list of non-merged revisions prior to merged one, that are affecting the conflicted path are displayed

The last bit can be quite helpful, when for example merging revision that changes a file, but not merging one before it, where this file was created.

After the merge conflict was solved the same merge command can be re-run without need to remove already merged revisions from --revisions option value.

Can't be used together with --bugs option.

svn-buddy.phar merge --revisions all

Will merge all non-merged revisions.

svn-buddy.phar merge --bugs JRA-4343,3453

Will merge all revisions, that are associated with JRA-4343 and 3453 bugs. This would be a major time saver in cases, when:

• only bug number is known
• bug consists of multiple revisions created on different days

Can't be used together with --revisions option.

svn-buddy.phar merge --auto-commit yes

Will automatically run svn-buddy.phar commit command on successful merge. Overrides value from merge.auto-commit config setting.

svn-buddy.phar merge --auto-commit no

Don't automatically run svn-buddy.phar commit command, when merge was successful. Overrides value from merge.auto-commit config setting.

svn-buddy.phar merge --with-full-message

Thanks to log command being used behind the scenes to display non-merged revisions it's possible to forward --with-full-message option to it to see non-truncated log message for each revision.

svn-buddy.phar merge --with-details

Thanks to log command being used behind the scenes to display non-merged revisions it's possible to forward --with-details option to it to see paths affected by each non-merged revision.

svn-buddy.phar merge --with-summary

Thanks to log command being used behind the scenes to display non-merged revisions it's possible to forward --with-summary option to it to see totals for paths affected by each non-merged revision.

svn-buddy.phar merge --update-revision 55

Will update working copy to the 55th revision before starting merge. Can be used to replay older merges for analytical purposes.

svn-buddy.phar merge --bugs JRA-123 --record-only

Will mark revisions, associated with JRA-123 bug as merged (no files will be changed).

svn-buddy.phar merge --revisions 55 --record-only

Will mark 55th revision as merged (no files will be changed).

The command sends changes from your working copy to the repository.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• --cl - Operate only on members of selected changelist
• --merge-template=MERGE-TEMPLATE Use alternative merge template for this commit

• commit.merge-template - log message template for merge commits (defaults to group_by_revision)

svn-buddy.phar commit

The command workflow is following:

1. abort automatically, when

• non-resolved conflicts are present
• no paths are changed

2. open an Interactive Editor for commit message entry
3. commit message is automatically generated, from:

• selected changelist name (when --cl option was used)
• merged revision information using selected merge template (when this is a merge commit)
• list of conflicted paths (if conflicts were present, but later were resolved)

4. once user is done changing commit message a confirmation dialog is shown to ensure user really wants to perform commit
5. when user agreed previously the commit is made

The auto-generated commit message looks like this (with group_by_revision merge template):

Changelist Name
Merging from Trunk to Stable
* r22758: message line 1
message line 2
message line 3
message line 4
* r22796:  message line 1
message line 2
message line 3

Conflicts:
  * path/to/conflicted-file

Description:

• Trunk is folder name of merge source url
• Stable is folder name of merge target (working copy)
• 22758 and 22796 are merged revisions
• message line ... are lines from commit message of merged revisions

svn-buddy.phar commit --cl

Same as above, but will also:

• ask user to select changelist
• put changelist name in commit message

svn-buddy.phar commit --merge-template summary

Same as above, but will use summary merge template instead of merge template configured for this working copy.

Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming unfinished operations, etc.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

svn-buddy.phar cleanup

Restore pristine working copy file (undo most local edits).

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

svn-buddy.phar revert

Bring changes from the repository into the working copy.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• -r, --revision=REVISION - Update working copy to specified revision, e.g. NUMBER, {DATE}, HEAD, BASE, COMMITTED, PREV
• --ignore-externals - Ignore externals definitions

svn-buddy.phar update

Updates a working copy.

svn-buddy.phar update --revision 55

Updates a working copy to 55th revision.

svn-buddy.phar update --ignore-externals

Updates a working copy, but doesn't checkout externals.

Manages recorded conflicts in a working copy.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• -m, --mode=MODE - Operation mode, e.g. show, add, replace, erase [default: "show"]

• conflicts.recorded-conflicts - list of conflicted paths (maintained automatically)

svn-buddy.phar conflicts

Shows list of recorded conflicts like this:

Conflicts:
 * conflicted/path/one
 * conflicted/path/tow

svn-buddy.phar conflicts --mode show

Shows list of recorded conflicts like this:

Conflicts:
 * conflicted/path/one
 * conflicted/path/tow

svn-buddy.phar conflicts --mode add

Adds current conflicted paths (e.g. after merge or update) to the list of recorded paths.

svn-buddy.phar conflicts --mode replace

Replaced list of recorded paths with current conflicted paths (e.g. after merge or update).

svn-buddy.phar conflicts --mode erase

Forgets all recorded conflicted paths.

Searches for a revision, where text was added to a file or removed from it.

• path - File path
• keywords - Search keyword

• -t, --match-type=MATCH-TYPE - Match type, e.g. first or last [default: "last"]

svn-buddy.phar search folder/path.php "on testMethod("

Finds where testMethod method was last seen in the folder/path.php file in the working copy.

svn-buddy.phar search folder/path.php "on testMethod(" --match-type last

Finds where testMethod method was last seen in the folder/path.php file in the working copy.

svn-buddy.phar search folder/path.php "on testMethod(" --match-type first

Finds where testMethod method was first added in the folder/path.php file in the working copy.

Runs other command sequentially on every working copy on a path. Almost all other commands can be used in such a manner.

• sub-command - Command to execute on each found working copy
• path - Path to folder with working copies [default: "."]

• --ignore-add=IGNORE-ADD - Adds path to ignored directory list
• --ignore-remove=IGNORE-REMOVE - Removes path to ignored directory list
• --ignore-show - Show ignored directory list

• -d, --with-details - Shows detailed revision information, e.g. paths affected
• -s, --with-summary - Shows number of added/changed/removed paths in the revision
• --merges - Show merge revisions only
• --no-merges - Hide merge revisions
• --merged - Shows only revisions, that were merged at least once
• --not-merged - Shows only revisions, that were not merged
• --action=ACTION - Show revisions, whose paths were affected by specified action, e.g. A, M, R, D
• --kind=KIND - Show revisions, whose paths match specified kind, e.g. dir or file
• --author=AUTHOR - Show revisions, made by a given author
• -f, --with-full-message - Shows non-truncated commit messages
• --with-refs - Shows revision refs
• --with-merge-oracle - Shows number of paths in the revision, that can cause conflict upon merging
• --with-merge-status - Shows merge revisions affecting this revision
• --max-count=MAX-COUNT - Limit the number of revisions to output
• --ignore-externals - Ignore externals definitions
• --refresh-bug-tracking - Refreshes value of "bugtraq:logregex" SVN property of the project
• --show-meta - Shows meta information of a project

• aggregate.ignore - list of paths ignored by aggregate command, when searching for working copies

svn-buddy.phar aggregate --ignore-add some-path

Adds some-path path (can be relative or absolute) to ignored path list.

svn-buddy.phar aggregate --ignore-remove some-path

Removes some-path path (can be relative or absolute) from ignored path list.

svn-buddy.phar aggregate --ignore-show

Shows list of ignored paths.

Changes and displays project configuration.

• path - Working copy path [default: "."]

• --refresh-bug-tracking - Refreshes value of "bugtraq:logregex" SVN property of the project
• --show-meta - Shows meta information of a project

svn-buddy.phar project --refresh-bug-tracking

Pulls bugtraq:logregex SVN property from recently modified trunk/branch/tag and stores into project configuration.

svn-buddy.phar project --show-meta

Displays project meta information in following format:

Updates application to most recent version. Following update channels are available:

• stable (default) - new version available eventually
• snapshot - new version available on monday (only, when something was changed)
• preview - new version available once per day (only, when something was changed)

Special options exist (see examples below) to switch between update channels.

• -r, --rollback - Revert to an older version of the application
• --stable - Force an update to the stable channel
• --snapshot - Force an update to the snapshot channel
• --preview - Force an update to the preview channel

svn-buddy.phar self-update

Updates to most recent version on current update channel. By default update would happen from stable channel.

svn-buddy.phar self-update --rollback

In case if update was done previously allows to undo the update.

svn-buddy.phar self-update --stable

Change current update channel to stable and immediately performs the update.

svn-buddy.phar self-update --snapshot

Change current update channel to snapshot and immediately performs the update.

svn-buddy.phar self-update --preview

Change current update channel to preview and immediately performs the update.

Displays available commands. The version of Subversion binary is also displayed next to application version.

svn-buddy.phar
svn-buddy.phar list

Displays changes included in the current SVN-Buddy release.

svn-buddy.phar changelog

Displays help for a command.

1. download a stable release (preferably to the folder in PATH)
2. setup auto-completion by placing eval $(/path/to/svn-buddy.phar _completion --generate-hook -p svn-buddy.phar) in ~/.bashrc (Bash v4.0+ required) and reopening a Terminal window
3. (optional) switch to the snapshot release channel to get weekly updates by running the /path/to/svn-buddy.phar self-update --snapshot command
4. (optional) switch to the preview release channel to get daily updates by running the /path/to/svn-buddy.phar self-update --preview command

How to upgrade Bash on macOS: https://www.shell-tips.com/mac/upgrade-bash/ .

• working Subversion command-line client (was tested on v1.6, v1.7, v1.8)
• a Subversion working copy (almost all svn-buddy.phar commands operate inside a working copy)

See CONTRIBUTING file.

SVN-Buddy is released under the BSD-3-Clause License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.