help SVN Command
How to use help SVN (Subversion) Command in Linux / Windows?
Explanation
help command provides the information about the svn commands.
Usage:
svn help <subcommand>
<subcommand> - is not mandatory. If command is not given, it will list all the subversion commands.
Example:
- Now you can get the help about any svn command.
svn help add
Output:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
add: Put files and directories under version control, scheduling
them for addition to repository. They will be added in next commit.
usage: add PATH...
Valid options:
--targets ARG : pass contents of file ARG as additional args
-N [--non-recursive] : obsolete; try --depth=files or --depth=immediates
--depth ARG : limit operation by depth ARG ('empty', 'files',
'immediates', or 'infinity')
-q [--quiet] : print nothing, or only summary information
--force : force operation to run
--no-ignore : disregard default and svn:ignore property ignores
--auto-props : enable automatic properties
--no-auto-props : disable automatic properties
--parents : add intermediate parents
Global options:
--username ARG : specify a username ARG
--password ARG : specify a password ARG
--no-auth-cache : do not cache authentication tokens
--non-interactive : do no interactive prompting
--trust-server-cert : accept unknown SSL server certificates without
prompting (but only with '--non-interactive')
--config-dir ARG : read user configuration files from directory ARG
--config-option ARG : set user configuration option in the format:
FILE:SECTION:OPTION=[VALUE]
For example:
servers:global:http-library=serf
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Result:
From the above cmd, the description and syntax about the svn 'add' cmd is printed.