Don't show svn:externals in svn status

Question

I\'ve made one svn:external in my repository. Everything works fine, except the output of the svn status command. In the output there is lot of informa

Answer 1

I think no answer yet really solves the problem in the sense that if changes in a part of svn:externals has been made, they of course should be displayed. This propably makes no sense for really external repositories. But I use svn:externals to add a general build folder from the same repository into projects (because no general hierarchie of the modules exist). And I don't want to use the options --ignore-externals -q as I loose information about unadded files and changes in the general build script I have done in this project (which I might want to commit). My solution was to patch the subversion java command line implemantation svnkit.

AbstractSVNCommand.registerCommand(new SVNStatusCommand());
final ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
final PrintStream stream = new PrintStream(bos);

final SVNCommandLine commandLine = new SVNCommandLine();
commandLine.init(new String[] { "status", "PATH..." });

final SVNCommandEnvironment env = new SVNCommandEnvironment("mySvn", stream, stream, System.in);
env.init(commandLine);
env.initClientManager();

final SVNStatusCommand svnStatusCall = new SVNStatusCommand();
svnStatusCall.init(env);
svnStatusCall.run();
stream.flush();
String result = new String(bos.toByteArray());

StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(result);
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
    String line = scanner.nextLine();
    if (line.startsWith("X") || line.startsWith("Performing status on external item at")) {
        // ignore this output
    } else if (line.trim().isEmpty() == false) {
        buffer.append(line + "\n");
    }
}

System.out.println(buffer.toString());

This solves the problem because changes in externals are also marked with 'M' for modified...