BoringLi SVN SCM

SVN source control for VS Code with reliable nested working-copy discovery and an explicit, selective commit workflow.

Highlights

• Select individual files for commit with the inline + action.
• Select or unselect every visible file from the Changes, Commits, or repository title.
• Commit only files in the Commits group; hidden and unselected files stay out.
• Keep added, deleted, replaced, or missing parent folders with their selected descendants in tree view.
• Show each SCM folder on its own row by default so directory status badges remain visible.
• Keep nested, independent SVN working copies visible as separate providers.
• Hide clean working copies while continuing to monitor them for changes.
• Prepare, cancel, and submit commit messages explicitly.
• Apply the current diff block from the working-file editor.

SCM groups use consistent markers: [✓] Commits, [+] Changes, [?] Unversioned, [!] Conflicts, [≡] Changelist, and [↓] Remote Changes.

Selective commit workflow

1. Click + beside a changed file, the Changes group, or the repository title.
2. Confirm that the intended files appear under Commits.
3. Choose Prepare Commit, enter a message, and choose Commit Changes.
4. Use - to return a file or the whole Commits group without committing it.

Only files in Commits are passed to SVN. A file hidden from Source Control is therefore not selected or committed by default. When a selected file depends on a changed parent folder (for example, an added directory), that folder moves to Commits automatically. SVN still receives explicit, non-recursive targets, so unselected siblings remain outside the commit.

The extension contributes scm.compactFolders: false as a default because VS Code hides an SCM directory resource's own status decoration when it compresses a single-child folder chain. An explicit user or workspace setting still takes precedence if compact folders are preferred.

Prerequisites

Note: This extension leverages your machine's SVN installation,
so you need to install SVN first.

Windows

If you use TortoiseSVN, make sure the option Command Line Tools is checked during installation and C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin is available in PATH.

Features

Checkout

You can checkout a SVN repository with the SVN: Checkout command in the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P). You will be asked for the URL of the repository and the parent directory under which to put the local repository.

• Source Control View
• Quick Diffs in gutter
• Status Bar
• Create changelists
• Add files
• Revert edits
• Remove files
• Create branches
• Switch branches
• Create patches
• Diff changes
• Commit changes/changelists
• See commit messages

Blame

Please use a dedicated extension like blamer-vs

Attribution

This extension is forked from JohnstonCode/svn-scm 2.17.0 and is independently maintained by BoringLi under the MIT License. The original copyright and license notices are preserved in LICENSE.

Settings

Here are all of the extension settings with their default values. To change any of these, add the relevant Config key and value to your VSCode settings.json file. Alternatively search for the config key in the settings UI to change its value.

{
  // Whether auto refreshing is enabled
  "svn.autorefresh": true,

  // Check empty message before commit
  "svn.commit.checkEmptyMessage": true,

  // Set file to status resolved after fix conflicts
  "svn.conflicts.autoResolve": null,

  // Encoding of svn output if the output is not utf-8. When this parameter is null, the encoding is automatically detected. Example: 'windows-1252'.
  "svn.default.encoding": null,

  // The default location to checkout a svn repository.
  "svn.defaultCheckoutDirectory": null,

  // When a file is deleted, what SVN should do? `none` - Do nothing, `prompt` - Ask the action, `remove` - automatically remove from SVN
  "svn.delete.actionForDeletedFiles": "prompt"  // values: ["none","prompt","remove"],

  // Ignored files/rules for `svn.delete.actionForDeletedFiles`(Ex.: file.txt or **/*.txt)
  "svn.delete.ignoredRulesForDeletedFiles": [],

  // Controls whether to automatically detect svn externals.
  "svn.detectExternals": true,

  // Controls whether to automatically detect svn on ignored folders.
  "svn.detectIgnored": true,

  // Show diff changes using latest revision in the repository. Set false to use latest revision in local folder
  "svn.diff.withHead": true,

  // Whether svn is enabled
  "svn.enabled": true,

  // Try the experimental encoding detection
  "svn.experimental.detect_encoding": null,

  // Priority of encoding
  "svn.experimental.encoding_priority": [],

  // Url for the gravitar icon using the <AUTHOR>, <AUTHOR_MD5> and <SIZE> placeholders
  "svn.gravatar.icon_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/<AUTHOR_MD5>.jpg?s=<SIZE>&d=robohash",

  // Use garavatar icons in log viewers
  "svn.gravatars.enabled": true,

  // Ignores the warning when SVN is missing
  "svn.ignoreMissingSvnWarning": null,

  // List of SVN repositories to ignore.
  "svn.ignoreRepositories": null,

  // Ignores the warning when working copy is too old
  "svn.ignoreWorkingCopyIsTooOld": null,

  // Regex to detect path for 'branches' in SVN URL, 'null' to disable. Subpath use 'branches/[^/]+/([^/]+)(/.*)?' (Ex.: 'branches/...', 'versions/...')
  "svn.layout.branchesRegex": "branches/([^/]+)(/.*)?",

  // Regex group position for name of branch
  "svn.layout.branchesRegexName": 1,

  // Set true to show 'branches/<name>' and false to show only '<name>'
  "svn.layout.showFullName": true,

  // Regex group position for name of tag
  "svn.layout.tagRegexName": 1,

  // Regex to detect path for 'tags' in SVN URL, 'null' to disable. Subpath use 'tags/[^/]+/([^/]+)(/.*)?'. (Ex.: 'tags/...', 'stamps/...')
  "svn.layout.tagsRegex": "tags/([^/]+)(/.*)?",

  // Regex to detect path for 'trunk' in SVN URL, 'null' to disable. (Ex.: '(trunk)', '(main)')
  "svn.layout.trunkRegex": "(trunk)(/.*)?",

  // Regex group position for name of trunk
  "svn.layout.trunkRegexName": 1,

  // Number of commit messages to log
  "svn.log.length": 50,

  // Maximum depth to find subfolders using SVN
  "svn.multipleFolders.depth": 4,

  // Allow to find subfolders using SVN
  "svn.multipleFolders.enabled": null,

  // Folders to ignore using SVN
  "svn.multipleFolders.ignore": ["**/.git","**/.hg","**/vendor","**/node_modules"],

  // Path to the svn executable
  "svn.path": null,

  // Only show previous commits for a given user. Requires svn >= 1.8
  "svn.previousCommitsUser": null,

  // Refresh remote changes on refresh command
  "svn.refresh.remoteChanges": null,

  // Set the interval in seconds to check changed files on remote repository and show in statusbar. 0 to disable
  "svn.remoteChanges.checkFrequency": 300,

  // Show the output window when the extension starts
  "svn.showOutput": null,

  // Show the update message when update is run
  "svn.showUpdateMessage": true,

  // Set left click functionality on changes resource state
  "svn.sourceControl.changesLeftClick": "open diff"  // values: ["open","open diff"],

  // Combine the svn external in the main if is from the same server.
  "svn.sourceControl.combineExternalIfSameServer": null,

  // Allow to count unversioned files in status count
  "svn.sourceControl.countUnversioned": true,

  // Hide unversioned files in Source Control UI
  "svn.sourceControl.hideUnversioned": null,

  // Ignore unversioned files like .gitignore, Configuring this will overlook the default ignore rule
  "svn.sourceControl.ignore": [],

  // Changelists to ignore on commit
  "svn.sourceControl.ignoreOnCommit": ["ignore-on-commit"],

  // Changelists to ignore on status count
  "svn.sourceControl.ignoreOnStatusCount": ["ignore-on-commit"],

  // Set to ignore externals definitions on update (add --ignore-externals)
  "svn.update.ignoreExternals": true
}