I am using netbeans as an IDE for my work. This is a great IDE but sometimes a bit limited when dealing with subversion commands. I always ask a colleague of mine, Marco , who types faster than his shadow and knows everything about command lines some help about svn. In this post, I will compile what I have learned.

How to remove all svn properties from a folder

svn propdel svn:ignore tasks/
property 'svn:ignore' deleted from 'tasks'.
jeanmichel@21x100:~/ruby/projects/linqia/linqia_portal/lib$ svn status
M .
M tasks
? solr_reindexing/rspec_bcn_on_rails.rb
jeanmichel@21x100:~/ruby/projects/myproject/lib$ svn commit tasks -m "Should remove the weird properties on tasks folder"
Sending tasks
Committed revision 2208.

How to generate a diff between 2 versions

go to the folder where trunk / branch / tag is

svn diff -r 2114:2167 > text_file.diff

Merging

svn merge --dry-run svn://svn.linqia.com/lalala/production@2354 svn://svn.linqia.com/klikee-website/lalala/production@2355
Skipped missing target: 'script/sql/import/update_user_languages.sql'
U lib/tasks/import_communities.rake
jeanmichel@21x100:~/ruby/projects/linqia/linqia_portal$ svn merge svn://svn.linqia.com/klikee-website/klikee/branches/production-v-1.1-08-04-2008@2354 svn://svn.linqia.com/klikee-website/klikee/branches/production-v-1.1-08-04-2008@2355
Skipped missing target: 'script/sql/import/update_user_languages.sql'
U lib/tasks/import_communities.rake