This is a simple but useful tip. I have a server where I do SSH public key authentication for SVN+SSH, but sometimes would like to just login to the site and get a command line. For those times, I use the following command to force password authentication even tough I have the correct identity file in my .ssh folder.

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications="password"  myUsername@myServerAddress

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Here is a little tip for automating files that need to be added to SVN. First make sure you are in your project folder that is under source control. Then try the following:

svn status | grep -e ^?

With this you’ll notive that it will list the files, but its not in a format ready automatable. So lets enhance it:

svn status | grep -e ^? | awk '{print $2}'

This time we get a list of the files that need to be added, but lets take it a step further and also add the files to SVN in one step:

svn add `svn status | grep -e ^? | awk '{print $2}'`

There. Now all you have to do is commit. read more