how can I change svn folder to normal folder

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In git I can remove .git folder and after that, the folder is considered as a normal folder, I wonder how can I do the same for svn folder?

Alessandro Hoss · Answer 1 · 2017-10-22T10:52:55.720

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It's almost the same, but svn creates a hidden .svn folder for each subfolders (for older SVN versions).

Newer svn clients also only create a single top-level .svn directory.

In both cases, just remove .svn in the parent, and in the subfolders if exists on your version.

edited Oct 22 '17 at 10:52

answered Oct 22 '17 at 10:40

Alessandro Hoss

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Newer svn clients also only create a single top-level `.svn` directory. (but this answer still applies) – knittl Oct 22 '17 at 10:41
Good to know. I've updated the answer. Thanks. – Alessandro Hoss Oct 22 '17 at 10:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '17 at 07:24

You can do a svn export: this will create a clean (without any .svn folder) copy of your svn working copy. You can choose to export only the svn-versioned files or also other files that are being ignored.

After exporting you can just remove the original working copy folders. Make sure that all the critical files are there (you may have forgotten to add them).

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