This section is from the "Version Control with Subversion" book, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato. Also available from Amazon: Version Control with Subversion.
svn status prints all files that have local modifications. By default, the repository is not contacted. While this subcommand accepts a fair number of options, the following are the most commonly used ones:
-u
Contact the repository to determine, and then display, out-of-dateness information.
-v
Show all entries under version control.
-N
Run non-recursively (do not descend into subdirectories).
The status command has two output formats. In the default “short” format, local modifications look like this:
$ svn status M foo.c M bar/baz.c
If you specify the --show-updates
(-u
) option, a longer output format is
used:
$ svn status -u M 1047 foo.c * 1045 faces.html * bloo.png M 1050 bar/baz.c Status against revision: 1066
In this case, two new columns appear. The second column
contains an asterisk if the file or directory is out-of-date.
The third column shows the working-copy's revision number of the
item. In the example above, the asterisk indicates that
faces.html
would be patched if we updated,
and that bloo.png
is a newly added file in
the repository. (The absence of any revision number next to
bloo.png
means that it doesn't yet exist in
the working copy.)
At this point, you should take a quick look at the list of all possible status codes in svn status. Here are a few of the more common status codes you'll see:
A Resource is scheduled for Addition D Resource is scheduled for Deletion M Resource has local Modifications C Resource has Conflicts (changes have not been completely merged between the repository and working copy version) X Resource is eXternal to this working copy (may come from another repository). See the section called “Externals Definitions” ? Resource is not under version control ! Resource is missing or incomplete (removed by another tool than Subversion)
For a more detailed discussion of svn status, see the section called “See an overview of your changes”.