Removing .svn files from all directories

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I recently converted my cvs repository to svn using cvs2svn and I recently noticed that every directory has a hidden folder called .svn. My current build script copies a lot of directories from my versioned resources directories and it ends up copying the .svn files. Is there anyway to make svn not include these files when I checkout or do I need to write a script to delete all these .svn files. There are many files that have these hidden .svn directories so this would be a pain unless I could write a recursive script to do this but I don't if I can do this for my windows installer. Is there an easy way to stop svn from putting this hidden directory everywhere in my project?

Solution 1

You can do a thing called an SVN Export to get the files without the .svn directories

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.export.html

Solution 2

I'm not sure in your specific case that you want to remove all those .svn directories. But if you do, here is a bash one-liner to do just that:

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r

Solution 3

on Win32/Win64 systems, the following command should do the job:

del /q /s  .svn

Solution 4

I posted this yesterday over here, but here is again because I kind of put it in the wrong thread anyway...

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I've got something that should make your day. Original source is here.

This is a (perfectly safe) Shell Extension that will add "Delete SVN Folders" to your right click menu in Windows. Run it on any directory containing those pesky files.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN]
@="Delete SVN Folders"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DeleteSVN\command]
@="cmd.exe /c \"TITLE Removing SVN Folders in %1 && COLOR 9A && FOR /r \"%1\" %%f IN (.svn) DO RD /s /q \"%%f\" \""

To make this part of your build script copy that call to cmd.exe and execute it.

Solution 5

find . -name '.svn' -depth -exec rm -rf '{}' \; -ls

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Comments

[Jon Onstott]

Yep, SVN Export will remove the .svn files. You could make a batch file to run the export command from the command line and incorporate that into your build process.

[crashmstr]

Deleting them is not a good idea unless you want that folder to NOT be a working copy anymore.

[jray]

Sometimes one inherits code where this is just more useful. Thanks!

[Admin]

check this link it helped me.... cocoabugs.blogspot.com/2010/09/…

[Eva]

this is great, but unfortunately sometimes someone sends you a tarball full of them :(

[Rid Iculous]

Why is this the accepted answer? It actually doesn't anwser the question at all. If you don't have SVN at your disposal it's useless and if you do it doesn't remove the directories. It creates a copy of the existing files omitting the .svn files. Yes, I'm splitting hairs, but this is IT, right? As per stackoverflow.com/questions/4889619/… running FOR /F "tokens=*" %G IN ('DIR /B /AD /S .svn') DO RMDIR /S /Q "%G" is a much better answer

[Roland]

upvote for Windows users that have cygwin installed. Still I find using the File Explorer search box much easier.

[Camaleo]

before running the command be sure to enter the proper directory, example: cd mySVNdirectoryWhereToRemoveTheSubfolders