Copy all svn:* properties from one file to another (See related posts)

The following script can be used to copy all SVN properties from one file (presumably a file that's already under SVN control) to another file (which you presumably want to put under SVN control, and which you want to check in with the same SVN properties).

#!/bin/sh

ORIG=$1 ; shift ;
[ -e "$ORIG" ] || exit ;

for PROP in `svn pl "$ORIG" | sed -n '2,$p'` ; do
        VALUE=`svn pg $PROP "$ORIG"` ;
        for FILE ; do
                [ -e "$FILE" ] && svn ps $PROP "$VALUE" "$FILE" ;
        done
done

# That's it, Folks!

If you put the above code in a shell script called...

svnprops.sh

... then you can run it as follows if you want to copy all svn:* properties FROM original.file TO blegga:

pvdb@localhost ~ $ ./svnprops.sh original.file blegga 
property 'svn:mime-type' set on 'blegga'
property 'svn:eol-style' set on 'blegga'
pvdb@localhost ~ $ _

... or as follows for multiple target files:

pvdb@localhost ~ $ ./svnprops.sh another.original.file blegga foo bar 
property 'svn:mime-type' set on 'blegga'
property 'svn:mime-type' set on 'foo'
property 'svn:mime-type' set on 'bar'
pvdb@localhost ~ $ _