[FsFilter] FileSystem Filter for Subversion
FsFilter
■ What's
This is a FileSystem-Filter for Linux and FreeBSD.
When using revision control system like Subversion or CVS,
.svn or CVS directory will be created automatically.
These directory are important for revision control system, but not for human readings.
Especially, these .svn files will be noisy when using commands like "find", "grep".
Then, FsFilter will hide .svn directory for user, and provide comfortable working space of Subversion.
Principle & Examples
■ How it works
FsFilter hooks readdir(3) or readdir64(3) by LD_PRELOAD, then skip .svn directory to hide it.
Therefore, You can hide .svn directory for almost all commands. (ex: find, grep, diff, ls, cp, mv, ...)
Moreover, svn command doesn't use readdir(3) to access .svn directory, so svn command works fine with FsFilter.
■ Example
| Without FsFilter | With FsFilter | |
|---|---|---|
% find utils utils utils/.svn utils/.svn/tmp utils/.svn/tmp/props utils/.svn/tmp/text-base utils/.svn/tmp/prop-base utils/.svn/tmp/wcprops utils/.svn/props utils/.svn/props/make-setenv.sh.svn-work utils/.svn/empty-file utils/.svn/entries utils/.svn/format utils/.svn/text-base utils/.svn/text-base/Makefile.svn-base utils/.svn/text-base/make-setenv.sh.svn-base utils/.svn/README.txt utils/.svn/prop-base utils/.svn/prop-base/make-setenv.sh.svn-base utils/.svn/wcprops utils/Makefile utils/make-setenv.sh |
clean up file listing.
 |
% find utils utils utils/Makefile utils/make-setenv.sh |
% svn status utils ? utils/touchtest |
svn works without trouble.
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% svn status utils ? utils/touchtest |
■ Note
When deleting the directory including .svn, there is a "Directory not empty" error though the directory is seemingly empty.
% mkdir -p test/.svn % ls -a test . .. % rm -r test/ rm: cannot remove directory `test/': Directory not empty
Therefore, unset LD_PRELOAD when exec "rm -r".
% LD_PRELOAD= rm -r test
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