Comments on: Recursively adding files to CVS

By: MartinGehrke.com » Recursively add directories and files to CVS

MartinGehrke.com » Recursively add directories and files to CVS — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:11:25 +0000

[...] @ vafer.org find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | xargs cvs add find . -type f -print | grep -v CVS | xargs cvs [...]

By: Max

Max — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:15:23 +0000

Sweet, I use this all the time.

By: James

James — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:02:30 +0000

-iregex is a gnu find only extension (as is -!, use \! instead), and really unnecessary since -iname \*CVS\* is the same as the .*CVS.* regex

By: fooball

fooball — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:47:09 +0000

sorry copy the wrong line :)

find . -type f -! -iregex “.*CVS.*” -exec cvs add {} \;

By: fooball

fooball — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:41:24 +0000

kinda the same solutions but w/o so much wasted pipes ;-)

find . -type d -! -name CVS -! -name ‘.’ -exec cvs add {} \;
find . -type f -! -name CVS -! -name ‘.’ -exec cvs add {} \;

By: Daevid Vincent

Daevid Vincent — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:41:35 +0000

Be aware that the command uses “grep” and you might have grep aliased to some command lines. For example, as a programmer, I find this useful:

alias grep=’grep -n -i –color=auto’

However, it fails the above commands. So you have to type “unalias grep” first.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:10:05 +0000

I love it.

Thanks!

By: cowgod

cowgod — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:39:38 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you. awesome.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:28:38 +0000

Thanks guys this is just what I needed. Don’t have eclipse setup on my mac. :(

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:49:09 +0000

Thanks, this is fantastic

It did not work for me as specified under bash on OS X, I had to use the following, and note the -n1 parameter for xargs:

find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | xargs -n1 cvs add
find . -type f -print | grep -v CVS | xargs -n1 cvs add

the -n1 ensures that cvs add is called only for a single file each time. That’s required because while cvs add can be called with a number of files as argument, if one of the arguments “aborts” the add, the others won’t be added. I found that to happen with the first line which adds the directories. If a directory is already there, cvs add aborts instead of just skipping it like it does with files.

So it would do a cvs add dir1 dir2 dir3, but because dir1 was already in the repository, it would not add dir 2 and 3. I am not sure it’s required for files, but it can’t hurt.