SVN导出但排除某些文件？

Question

I need to export my checked-in codebase on the production server, but need to exclude certain files from being overwritten.

Is there a way of "exporting" (or equivalent) content (without the .svn folders, etc that are created) and excluding certain files?

What I do presently is export everything and do the changes manually, but am thinking of exporting to a clean directory, copying the necessary files and changing the directory name to the correct one.

Answer 1

Create a patch with your changes:

svn export . /tmp/exported
cp -pr /tmp/exported /tmp/exported.orig
# do your changes to /tmp/exported
cd /tmp
diff -urNP exported.orig exported > "$HOME"/local-changes.patch

Then when you do export then first export then apply changes:

svn export . /tmp/exported --force
( cd /tmp/exported; patch -p1 < "$HOME"/local.changes.patch )

This way you'll get an error, when your modified files would change so much that your changes will not apply cleanly. If you just copy files then if, for example, a configuration option will be added to configuration file, then your system will break mysteriously.

Answer 2

It depends what you use to access your SVN command (command-line svn? Tortoise? Eclipse SVN plugin?)

With Tortoise SVN, to export : right-click in your repo -> ToirtoiseSVN -> export. With Tigris Eclipse plugin, to ignore file : right-click on your file -> Team -> add to svn:ignore ; to export : right-click on your trunk (or repo) -> Team -> Export