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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#-------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+#-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+################################################################################
+##  File:  release-to-svn.sh
+##  Desc:  Promote release candidate from svn dev/systemds to release/systemds
+##  Note:  This file to be run only after the succesful voting
+################################################################################
+
+SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)
+
+dry_run_flag=0
+while getopts ":n" opt; do
+  case $opt in
+    n) dry_run_flag=1 ;;
+    \?) error "Invalid option: $OPTARG" ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+
+RELEASE_STAGING_LOCATION="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/systemds"
+RELEASE_LOCATION="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/systemds"
+
+RELEASE_VERSION=
+APPROVED_RELEASE_TAG=
+
+ASF_USERNAME=
+
+read -p "RELEASE_VERSION : " RELEASE_VERSION
+read -p "APPROVED_RELEASE_TAG : " APPROVED_RELEASE_TAG
+
+read -p "ASF_USERNAME : " ASF_USERNAME
+
+tmp_repo=$(mktemp -d systemds-repo-tmp-XXXXX)
+
+pushd "${tmp_repo}"
+
+# 1. Checkout only the directory associated with approved release tag
+svn co --depth=empty $RELEASE_STAGING_LOCATION svn-dev-systemds
+cd svn-dev-systemds
+svn update --set-depth files ${APPROVED_RELEASE_TAG}
+cd ..
+
+# 2.1. Checkout the empty repo, and copy the contents from svn dev
+svn co --depth=empty $RELEASE_LOCATION svn-release-systemds
+mkdir -p svn-release-systemds/$RELEASE_VERSION
+
+cp svn-dev-systemds/${APPROVED_RELEASE_TAG}/systemds-* svn-release-systemds/$RELEASE_VERSION
+
+# 2.2. Add the files to svn
+svn add svn-release-systemds/$RELEASE_VERSION
+cd svn-release-systemds
+
+# 2.3. Commit and upload the files to the svn repository
+
+if [[ $dry_run_flag != 1 ]]; then
+  # This step prompts for the Apache Credentials
+  svn ci --username $ASF_USERNAME -m'Apache SystemDS $RELEASE_VERSION Released' --no-auth-cache \n
+  [[ $? == 0 ]] && printf '\n Publishing to $RELEASE_LOCATION is complete!\n'
+else
+  printf "\n==========\n"
+  printf "This step would commit to the SVN release repo\n"
+  printf "At $RELEASE_LOCATION \n"
+  printf "\n==========\n"
+  printf "You might want to manually check the files and run the following:\n"
+  printf "svn ci --username $ASF_USERNAME -m'Apache SystemDS $RELEASE_VERSION Released' --no-auth-cache \n"
+  printf "\n==========\n"
+fi
+
+