How do I add these two directories to a changelist?
You can't. From the SVN documentation:
Changelist Limitations
Changelists can be assigned only to files—Subversion doesn't currently support the use of changelists with directories.
Question
I created a .svnignore
file and then set it with the command $ svn propset svn:ignore -R -F .svnignore .
. Now my current directory, .
, and another subdirectory, figures
, are shown as modified.
$ svn status
M .
M figures
When I try adding these two directories to a changelist, it fails. How do I add these two directories to a changelist?
$ svn changelist 'Pink Fairy Armadillo' . figures
Skipped '.'
Skipped 'figures'
Solution
How do I add these two directories to a changelist?
You can't. From the SVN documentation:
Changelist Limitations
Changelists can be assigned only to files—Subversion doesn't currently support the use of changelists with directories.
OTHER TIPS
Not sure if this was true last March, but you can recursively add all the files in a directory using this command
svn changelist my_changelist --recursive folder_name
It does add EVERYTHING, and not just modified files, but your commit should only hit the modified stuff anyway, and you can use the same --recursive flag to remove a folder from the changelist - see this answer
svn changelist --remove --recursive folder_name
But you can use:
svn changelist 'Pink Fairy Armadillo' path_to_dir/*
Should achieve the same thing.