How to use SVN-commit in powershell

Question

I would like to use SVN commands in my PowerShell script.

I know I need to declare the SVN executable as a variable, but afterwards I want to commit a file which I have declared as a variable and the commit message I would like to give is specified in a file.

$svnExe = "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe"
$myFile = "C:\xx\file.txt"
$commitMsg = "C:\xx\msg.txt" 

$myFile is already a versioned file, $commitMsg is not and will also not be a versioned file.

From command-line this works:

svn commit -F C:\xx\msg.txt C:\xx\file.txt

But how would I do this using PowerShell?

Solution

Svn works the same way in PowerShell as it does in a Command Prompt. If you define a variable with the full path to the executable you need to run it via the call operator (&), though, because otherwise PowerShell would simply echo the string and be confused about the rest of the commandline.

$svn = 'C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe'
$myFile = 'C:\xx\file.txt'
$commitMsg = 'C:\xx\msg.txt'

& $svn commit -F $commitMsg $myFile

If you add the Svn directory to your path environment variable you can just invoke the executable directly:

$env:PATH += ';C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin'

...

svn.exe commit -F $commitMsg $myFile

Another option would be to define an alias for the executable:

New-Alias -Name svn -Value 'C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe'

...

svn commit -F $commitMsg $myFile

Comments

[tommy2479]

I tried the first suggestion you made. And find out that it need to be: $svnExe = 'C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe' $myFile = 'C:\xx\file.txt' $commitMsg = 'C:\xx\msg.txt' & $svnExe commit -F $commitMsg $myFile But afterwards I got the following problem: svn: E205008: Log message contains a zero byte At line:6 char:2 + & <<<< $svnExe commit -F $commitMsg $myFile + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (svn: E205008: L...ins a zero byte:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

[tommy2479]

Any idea how I solve the <svn: E205008: Log message contains a zero byte> issue?

[Ansgar Wiechers]

@tommy2479 You saved msg.txt in Unicode format. Save the file in ANSI format and the error will disappear.

[tommy2479]

this really helped me out thnx!