How to recursively remove .svn metadata folders?

Question

I have a Java project and it used a SVN repository, now I decide to change to GIT.

However the problem is that SVN engine that I used created in every folder of the project the .svn metadata directory.

I want to clean all folders of the project of this hidden folder.

Is there any terminal command to search in folder and clean it ?

Solution 1

You will have to move to desire folder using cd command then write following command:

find -type d -name '.svn' -exec rm -rfv {} \;

This will remove the all svn files from current and sub-directories.

Solution 2

Another way of doing the same is:

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Solution 3

If it's still connected to svn just do svn export and it will copy the project with no svn metadata:)

Solution 4

For Windows :

• either use UnxUtils http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ with the previous answers
• or use the search (F3) in explorer with ".svn" as the file name, it also worked for me

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Comments

[Steven]

I wish Windows (I have has this same issue on that platform) had solutions that were this clean and easy :(

[Chakra]

There may be some script in Powershell, but I don't use Windows anymore ;-)

[enzotib]

This fails for directories with spaces in the name

[enzotib]

This is dangerous, when some dir can contain spaces in his name

[nanofarad]

Yes. Beware of spaces!