June 13, 2007 – 2:15pm svn export and zip

Sometimes it’s necessary to make a copy of a project stored in an SVN repository. If you just copy the directory manually, you will also be copying those sneaky .svn files that exist in every directory in the project. Instead you should use the svn export command. This will make a new copy of all of the files in the respository than you can zip up and send off to whomever you please.

svn export file:///path/to/your/repository my_export

If you want to zip this baby up:

zip -r my_export.zip my_export

If you wanted to get really creative, and tag this export as a release, you could something like this:

svn copy file:///path/to/repos/trunk file:///path/to/repos/tags/1.0release -m "tagging version 1.0 release"
svn export file:///path/to/repos/tags/1.0release 1.0release
# for a zip:
zip -r 1.0release.zip 1.0release/
# for a tgz
tar -czvf 1.0release.tgz 1.0release.zip/*

References:

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re10.html