For quite some time, I’ve wanted tcsh completions for URLs when using svn (the Subversion command-line client). I finally wrote my own recently.<\/p>\n
There were solutions available on the web, but they only worked with file:\/\/ URLs. I suspect most developers are rarely using file:\/\/ URLs. Typically the repository is on another machine with some type of remote access. In my case, via svn+ssh:\/\/ URLs. I was unable to find anything that worked with remote URLs.<\/p>\n
Since tcsh 6.17 and above expose a COMMAND_LINE environment variable that contains the current command line, it wasn’t rocket science to write a simple C++ program to complete svn URLs. The source code for my simple solution is available here: svnutils_tcsh.tgz<\/a><\/p>\n If you compile this and put the resulting cmpl_svn_url binary in your bin directory, you can then have an svn completion in your .tcshrc that contains this:<\/p>\n Obviously this will be slow if access to the Subversion server is slow. That’s not the case for my home repository since it’s on a local gigabit ethernet connection. But even when slow, it’s handy for new checkouts, creating branches or tags, listing the repository or ‘svn cat’ to see a file in the repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For quite some time, I’ve wanted tcsh completions for URLs when using svn (the Subversion command-line client). I finally wrote my own recently. There were solutions available on the web, but they only worked with file:\/\/ URLs. I suspect most developers are rarely using file:\/\/ URLs. Typically the repository is on another machine with some … <\/p>\n\r\ncomplete svn ...\r\n 'C@file:\/\/\/@`'\"${HOME}\/bin\/cmpl_svn_url\"'`@@' \\\r\n 'C@svn+ssh:\/\/@`'\"${HOME}\/bin\/cmpl_svn_url\"'`@@' \\\r\n 'C@http:\/\/@`'\"${HOME}\/bin\/cmpl_svn_url\"'`@@' \\\r\n 'C@https:\/\/@`'\"${HOME}\/bin\/cmpl_svn_url\"'`@@' \\\r\n ...\r\n<\/pre>\n