svn status — Print the status of working copy files and directories.
Print the status of working copy files and
directories. With no arguments, it prints only locally modified
items (no repository access). With --show-updates
,
it adds working revision and server out-of-date information. With
--verbose
, it prints full revision information on
every item. With --quiet
, it prints only summary
information about locally modified items.
The first six columns in the output are each one character wide, and each column gives you information about different aspects of each working copy item.
The first column indicates that an item was added, deleted, or otherwise changed:
' '
No modifications.
'A'
Item is scheduled for addition.
'D'
Item is scheduled for deletion.
'M'
Item has been modified.
'R'
Item has been replaced in your working copy. This means the file was scheduled for deletion, and then a new file with the same name was scheduled for addition in its place.
'C'
The contents (as opposed to the properties) of the item conflict with updates received from the repository.
'X'
Item is present because of an externals definition.
'I'
Item is being ignored (e.g., with the svn:ignore
property).
'?'
Item is not under version control.
'!'
Item is missing (e.g., you moved or deleted it without using svn). This also indicates that a directory is incomplete (a checkout or update was interrupted).
'~'
Item is versioned as one kind of object (file, directory, link) but has been replaced by a different kind of object.
The second column tells the status of a file’s or directory’s properties:
' '
No modifications.
'M'
Properties for this item have been modified.
'C'
Properties for this item are in conflict with property updates received from the repository.
The third column is populated only if the working copy directory is locked (see Sometimes You Just Need to Clean Up):
' '
Item is not locked.
'L'
Item is locked.
The fourth column is populated only if the item is scheduled for addition-with-history:
' '
No history scheduled with commit.
'+'
History scheduled with commit.
The fifth column is populated only if the item is switched relative to its parent (see Traversing Branches):
' '
Item is a child of its parent directory.
'S'
Item is switched.
The sixth column is populated with lock information:
' '
When --show-updates
is used, the file
is not locked. If --show-updates
is
not used, this merely means that the file
is not locked in this working copy.
File is locked in this working copy.
File is locked either by another user or in another
working copy. This appears only when
--show-updates
is used.
File was locked in this working copy, but the lock has
been “stolen” and is invalid. The file is
currently locked in the repository. This appears only when
--show-updates
is used.
File was locked in this working copy, but the lock has
been “broken” and is invalid. The file is no
longer locked. This appears only when
--show-updates
is used.
The out-of-date information appears in the seventh column
(only if you pass the --show-updates
option):
' '
The item in your working copy is up to date.
'*'
A newer revision of the item exists on the server.
The remaining fields are variable width and delimited by
spaces. The working revision is the next field if the
--show-updates
or --verbose
option
is passed.
If the --verbose
option is passed, the last
committed revision and last committed author are displayed
next.
The working copy path is always the final field, so it can include spaces.
--changelistARG
--depthARG
--ignore-externals --incremental --no-ignore --quiet (-q) --show-updates (-u) --verbose (-v) --xml
This is the easiest way to find out what changes you have made to your working copy:
$ svn status wc M wc/bar.c A + wc/qax.c
If you want to find out which files in your working copy are
out of date, pass the --show-updates
option (this
will not make any changes to your working
copy). Here you can see that wc/foo.c has changed in the repository
since we last updated our working copy:
$ svn status --show-updates wc M 965 wc/bar.c * 965 wc/foo.c A + 965 wc/qax.c Status against revision: 981
--show-updates
only
places an asterisk next to items that are out of date (i.e., items
that will be updated from the repository if you later use svn update).
--show-updates
does not
cause the status listing to reflect the repository’s version of
the item (although you can see the revision number in the
repository by passing the --verbose
option).
The most information you can get out of the status subcommand is as follows:
$ svn status --show-updates --verbose wc M 965 938 sally wc/bar.c * 965 922 harry wc/foo.c A + 965 687 harry wc/qax.c 965 687 harry wc/zig.c Head revision: 981
Lastly, you can get svn
status output in XML format with the
--xml
option:
$ svn status --xml wc <?xml version="1.0"?> <status> <target path="wc"> <entry path="qax.c"> <wc-status props="none" item="added" revision="0"> </wc-status> </entry> <entry path="bar.c"> <wc-status props="normal" item="modified" revision="965"> <commit revision="965"> <author>sally</author> <date>2008-05-28T06:35:53.048870Z</date> </commit> </wc-status> </entry> </target> </status>
For many more examples of svn status, see See an overview of your changes.