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One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

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bashmohandes 1 year, 4 months ago

spellcoder.com — If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

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Nice tip, I have gone through this process manually more than a few times.

posted by

gavinjoyce 1 year, 4 months ago

It's easier to use svn export. Try svn help export and you'll see what it does.

posted by luciolucio 1 year, 3 months ago

As far as I know, svn export uses the lastest version in the repository. This technique is useful if you have local changes or other non-committed files.

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gavinjoyce 1 year, 3 months ago