Comments on: Recursively delete .svn directories

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:38:41 +0000

Thanks again for this tip. One thing to note: for me, this ran into problems with directories:

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

I got “.svn is a directory” errors.

I had to add the rf flags:

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

That worked for me.

By: Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » Cleanse a directory tree of Subversion

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:39:34 +0000

[...] This has often tripped me up: I copy a folder (which is under version control) to another location and all the”.svn” files get copied too. So this is useful: Scott Meves posts a trick for recursively clearing out the “.svn” files. [...]

By: sqz

sqz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:06:38 +0000

I always forget these smart oneliners, I always end up with :

rm -rf */.svn
rm -rf */*/.svn
rm -rf */*/*/.svn

also works like a dog
maybe one should make an alias for the smart oneliner

By: nresni

nresni — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:15:14 +0000

hi,

You can also use svn export

export a clean project…

By: mikael.randy

mikael.randy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:54:39 +0000

You can also use
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

By: Scott Meves

Scott Meves — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:51:25 +0000

Thanks Jon — I just updated the post to reflect your method.

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:15:12 +0000

You should use:

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

instead. This approach doesn’t escape spaces in file names which would cause problems if you had a directory with a space in it.