Comments on: How to remove all .svn subdirs from a given directory

By: hakre

hakre — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:27:54 +0000

-d did not the job for me in bash, but just using d did:

rm -rf `find . -type d -name ".svn"`

By: Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:03:55 +0000

If you use bash, you can use wildcard expansion: rm -rf **/.svn

By: Krysztof von Murphy

Krysztof von Murphy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:24:53 +0000

Just a note to say « thank you ». Notes to oneself are so convenient for lazy people just googling for a problem :-)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:52:59 +0000

Yep. But sometimes you just want to copy a versioned directory structure to a different location (another project, another dir of the same project, etc).

There are, of course, svn copy and svn move (and of course svn export) commands which leave you with a proper directory structure, but sometimes it's just faster and easier to copy that directory using Finder (or Explorer), and then remove those pesky .svn dirs before "svn add"-attaching that copied directory to the new location.

By: Torrey

Torrey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:26:55 +0000

This is what svn export is for. Just run 'svn export srcdir ~/targetdir '. It will export the 'meat' and not the .svn dirs from the srcdir to the targetdir

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:42:28 +0000

Thanks Matt

Been looking for an elegant solution to this problem for a couple of days.

Saved me a load of pain :-)

Dean