msvn

msvn stands for my svn and is an svn wrapper to ease using svn in a terminal.

Contrarily to git, svn is not so console-friendly out of the box: for example, output is not paginated or colored, it just goes straight out to the terminal.

This wrapper tries to fix this and adds a bunch of quality of life commands on top of it.

Since it was initially used on a windows machine, it can also be sourced by a windows bash (eg. cygwin, git-bash, MSYS64, ...) and its main function, mysvn, aliased to svn. Windows is slow at starting new processes but in this way invoking msvn gets somewhat faster.

Features

Listed from more basic to more complex:

• pipe output of many commands to less -F, like on git
• include line numbers in blame output (and use a pager, duh)
• new command bat: like svn cat but with syntax highlighting
• colored diff output
• new command dst|dstat: diff with stats similar to git diff --stat
• new command ddi|ddiff: wordwise diff with syntax-highlighting
• new command sddi: same as ddi but side-by-side
• new command slog (short-log): output similar to git log --oneline using short-log
• repo path expansion: if path starts with "/" msvn will try to figure out the true root of the repo within remote. Useful if the same server is used to host multiple repos and you can't use the already present "^" svn shortcut.
  Example: if current checked out dir is ^/nucular-launch-codes/branches/Mario and you call msvn diff /branches/Luigi it will get converted to svn diff ^/nucular-launch-codes/branches/Luigi
• new command sr (set root): output command to set the $sr shell variable to the true root of the repo.
  Use alternatively to the / path expansion of the previous point by running eval $(msvn sr) and then the cmd that relies on $sr (ex. msvn di "$sr/branches/Mario")
• improved bash completion script with support for changelists. Use it by running eval "$(msvn completions)" in your ~/.bashrc file or similar
• support for pre-commit hooks similarly to git: place a pre-commit executable in .svn/hooks/ in your repo. It will be invoked in the current working directory with all arguments following svn commit as argv. If the program returns with an error the commit is aborted.
  An example pre-commit file is provided

Installation

1. Clone the repo to ~/src/msvn or another dir. (A couple commands -completions, slog- rely on the repo being checked out there: If you use another dir, edit the script to point to the real dir)
2. Add the msvn script to PATH.
3. (optional) alias msvn to svn in your shell

Dependencies

• bat
• diffstat
• delta