Comments on: Deleting all your .svn directories

By: Piotr

Piotr — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:14:23 +0000

find -name ".svn" | xargs rm -fr

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By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:07 +0000

@Steve

I’d argue that it’s a delete-existing-right-click op, but that may just be splitting hairs. 🙂

You can export from your own working copy or _to_ it? I know the latter, of course, and the problem is that you may be exporting from a repository to a working directory that has updated code. That was my concern. Nonetheless, it’s a 6-of-one-half-dozen-of-the-other thing. To each his own.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:58:39 +0000

@Rob – I use TortoiseSVN, so for me it is a right-click, context menu op.

@Rob,@Ryan – you can direct svn export to pull from the repo or your current working copy. I’ve only ever used it against my current working copy (so I learned something here!)

By: Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:32:26 +0000

@Steve, sometimes you can do an export, but sometimes you can’t. In my case I was working with files that had come from a backup of a working copy. The files in the repository were NOT what I needed, I needed the files from the backup of the working copy.

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:01:33 +0000

@Steve

Sure, you could do that, but it seems like a lot more work than right clicking on a parent folder and selecting an option from a context menu. And what if you have changes in your working copy from what’s in the repository?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:58:14 +0000

Just curious – couldn’t you just do an SVN Export and then replace the original folder with the exported copy? The exported copy doesn’t have any of the .svn stuff in it.

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:16:10 +0000

I do it slightly differently (very, very slightly) on Mac/Linux and wrote a simple registry entry to allow this to be done from the context menu on Windows. In case anyone’s interested:

http://robwilkerson.org/2008/02/19/deleting-svn-folders/

By: Jake Churchill

Jake Churchill — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:40 +0000

You make my head hurt