Would be nice to support GitX like changeset browsing behavior when svnx called at command-line

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See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3841674/is-there-a-gitx-equivalent-for-subver
sion-that-allows-command-line-execution

Running Svnx 1.3 installs the script ~/bin/svnx, but the command ~/bin/svnx -l 
." in a trunk directory throws up the error: "No working copy found. svnX 
cannot find a working copy for the file “/path/to/project/trunk/.”. Please 
make sure that the working copy that owns the file is defined in svnX's Working 
Copies window."

Basically, I work in Terminal.app a good bit of the time, but doing svn log to 
see diffs in changesets is not very clean. And, I don't want to browse around 
with a full UI client because I'm fine at command line for almost everything 
except easily browsing changesets for commits, which I can do easily in GitX 
for Git.

Just being able to type something short (even if it is an alias) into 
Terminal.app when I'm cd'd into a trunk directory of an SVN project and being 
able to see a list of changesets w/colored diffs and easily browse through them 
in similar fashion would be awesome.

Please, let me know if I'm doing something wrong and if this should be 
possible, or consider this an enhancement request if such behavior is not 
possible.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by garyswea...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 4:20

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As the error message indicates - you should add your working copy to svnX’s 
Working Copies window.

Simply drag the working copy’s folder from the Finder into svnX’s Working 
Copies window.
Alternatively you can use the command `svnx wc .` to open a working copy window 
(without adding it).

Now `svnx log .` should work better.

Original comment by chris...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 3:32

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Thanks, but isn't there a way of doing that without dragging anything? I work 
in the terminal quite a bit, and would rather not have to open things in the 
Finder and then drag them into svnx to get it to work from Terminal.app.

Could automatically adding the working copy to svnx if it doesn't exist happen 
via a command line switch?

Then perhaps I could have an alias for the following to open up svnx to display 
the log/all change sets:

svnx --add-working-copy . && svnx log .

That may not make sense, but I want to be able to install svnx, and then in 
Terminal.app in the multitude of projects just be able to run a single command 
to open up the svn log to review all past change sets via a single command in 
Terminal.app, like GitX's gitx command.

I know this isn't possible currently, but could similar be considered as a 
change request? I think it would make svnx a lot more useful, because reviewing 
past change sets to find potential causes of issues, etc. is a place where 
using svn at command line really needs some UI help, but other than that I'm 
happier using svn at command line and would prefer not to mess with the UI. 
Thanks in advance!

Original comment by garyswea...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 2:55

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I don't mean to be rude, but did you actually read my comment?

. . .  `svnx wc .`  . . .

Original comment by chris...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 3:26

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Sorry, I missed the second part of that! Thanks!

I just tried:

~/bin/svnx wc . && ~/bin/svnx log .

and after 10 seconds or so of spinning for the project I was viewing (because 
it has a big log: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk ), it shows the 
log and I could select a revision and mark another to compare it to and it pops 
up another window to show the diff.

Thanks again!

Original comment by garyswea...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 5:08

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Original comment by chris...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2011 at 12:54

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