Subversion: how to remove all .svn files recursively?

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How do you remove Subversion control for a folder?

Is there such a tool?

I'm being bothered by this issue now again...

You'll like Subversion 1.7. There's only one `.svn` folder and it resides at the root of the working copy. — Steven T. Snyder, Dec 07 '11 at 00:16

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 12 '11 at 11:52

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

Just noticed windows tag, so that probably won't help unless you use cygwin.

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answered Mar 12 '11 at 11:49

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Can you elaborate what `{} \;` means here? – mysql_go Mar 12 '11 at 12:10
Execute the command rm -rf, which will delete a directory, on every result of the find command. – river Mar 12 '11 at 12:13

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '11 at 11:47

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List them:

find . -type f -name .svn

Delete them

find . -type f -name .svn -delete

And if they're actually directories, not files

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

answered Mar 12 '11 at 11:47

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Is this going to work on windows ? *(see the `windows` tag ;-) )* – Pascal MARTIN Mar 12 '11 at 11:49
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@Pascal: wut? doesn't everybody use cygwin?! – Erik Mar 12 '11 at 11:50
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I'd rather prefer everybody *(or at least every developers)* use *(a real)* Linux ^^ – Pascal MARTIN Mar 12 '11 at 11:52
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Can you elaborate what `{} \;` means here? – mysql_go Mar 12 '11 at 12:15
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`-exec command ;` is the syntax for making find execute something. Since the shell would otherwise gobble the `;` I quote it, `\;`. The `{}` is replaced with the file/dir find is currently processing. – Erik Mar 12 '11 at 12:19

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '13 at 11:14

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now here it is. Go to your project root directory and use this terminal command:

find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

answered Jan 24 '13 at 11:14

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Worked perfectly. Thank you! – Con Antonakos Feb 09 '16 at 21:54

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '11 at 20:15

This is built-in to svn using svn export. This can operate in two modes, one which downloads and places a fresh copy of the server content in a new local folder, and the other which takes an existing local folder and creates a new local folder.

Example: svn export c:\MyCheckout c:\MyCheckout2

After executing the above, c:\MyCheckout2 will contain your checkout but without any .svn folders.

You can execute svn help export to see more instructions.

Subversion: how to remove all .svn files recursively?

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