It's not pretty, and it requires the 'py' lib, but it works for those using SVK instead of Subversion :) from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist class sdist(_sdist): def add_defaults(self): _sdist.add_defaults(self) try: import py except ImportError: return try: svk = py.path.local.sysfind('svk').sysexec except py.error.ENOENT: return try: info = svk('info') except py.process.cmdexec.Error: return depot = None for line in info.splitlines(): if line.startswith('Depot Path'): depot = line.split(': ')[-1] break if not depot: return start = len(depot) + 1 paths = [path[start:] for path in svk('ls', '-fR').splitlines()] self.filelist.extend(paths) -- Matthew R. Scott