Including new files in SVN diff

Question

I have a script which builds my application, uploads it to a remote machine, runs a performance test there and captures some metrics that I care about. The script creates a patc

Answer 1

To make svn diff include all the unversioned files from your local working copy you have to add these files first. svn diff outputs the same changeset that svn commit would use.

If you know for sure that all unversioned files should be added here's what you could do.

Prepare a list of unversioned files by taking from the output of svn status all the lines that start with a question mark:

svn status | grep ^? | sed -r 's/^\? +//' > ../unversioned_files_list.txt

You can then pass that list of files to svn addusing xargs:

xargs -r -d '\n' svn add < ../unversioned_files_list.txt

And then produce the patch:

svn diff > ../my_patch.patch

If you don't want to keep those files added, use the list of files to unadd them:

xargs -r -d '\n' svn rm --keep-local < ../unversioned_files_list.txt