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Sometimes you want to add a lot of new files to a subversion repository. An smart solution can be found on this post: svn status | grep "^?" | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs svn add That will add the new files to the repository in just one command, not looping around for each file. [...]

As many Rails developers I have some projects that I haven’t migrated to git yet. Those are still under Subversion and I manage its plugins with Piston. But what happen when you want to import a plugin hosted on a git repository? That the gem “piston” doesn’t work. The trick is that the last version [...]