Powershell Script to navigate files in SVN directory - powershell

Question

I need to navigate files from a SVN location instead of a windows location using PowerShell script, If I substitute windows path with SVN path it does not works, I have below working code for windows location:
function CheckPath($path)
{
Test-Path $path -PathType Container
}
function Navigate()
{
$directory = "C:\Test"
#Instead of above windows path I want to give SVN path as below:
#https://svn.test.local/svn/Files/
$qscomponent="SomeValue"
if (CheckPath -path $directory)
{
Write-Host "Executing scripts from $directory"
Get-ChildItem $directory -Filter LTR*.sql | Foreach-Object -Process { RunScript -comp $component -file $_.FullName }
}
else
{
Write-Host "Invalid component: the path does not exist!"
}
}

Answer 1

You can't execute anything that is on a remote SVN server. Any way of doing that will have to include downloading at least that file locally.
That said, to make this totally transparent, you could create script that depends on svn ls command.
One example is to change prompt function so that when you cd into some folder it will get the svn file list (ideally use proxy to set-location) but prompt is easier. Suppose you have .svn folder but no files (for this set depth to empty when doing checkout)
function prompt() {
$lastCmd = h | select -Last 1 -expand CommandLine
if ($lastCmd -match '^cd ') {
$x = svn info
if ($x -ne $null) {
svn ls | % {Write-Host $_}
}
}
"PS $pwd>"
}
This prompt function will list you all files on svn remote repository when you enter the folder. You could crete a simple powershell function that will download desired file and execute it (svn can checkout single files).
It will feel more Powershelly if you proxy cd or ls as you can then actually return array of items that you can pipe to for instance execution function, something like:
ls *.exe | execute
where ls is proxied and executed inside the svn repository local path and execute uses svn checkout for piped files, perhaps to TEMP and executes them.