Comments on: Removing .svn folders from a working copy with TortoiseSVN

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:18:11 +0000

David: Thanks for the tip.

By: David Fackler

David Fackler — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:06:35 +0000

Variation for the command-line happy.
Aim carefully.

Using GNU or Cygwin tools:

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

Using Windows native tools:

for /f “usebackq” %x in (`dir /s/b/ad .svn`) do rmdir /s/q %x

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:10:40 +0000

Josh: Glad that it helped you.

Yonatan: Thanks for the info. This sounds like a great reason for everyone using 1.4.x to upgrade!

By: Yonatan Tidhar

Yonatan Tidhar — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:43:05 +0000

Hi Jim
Thanx to you for shring us your experiance.
one comment – I check it iwith Tortiose 1.4.8 and it didnt work. 1.5.3 work as you described

By: Josh Kendall

Josh Kendall — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:02:49 +0000

This is awesome. This just saved me a huge headache. Thanks!

By: Jim Kring

Jim Kring — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:07:01 +0000

Hi Sam, Thanks for the tip. Actually, I typically use the explorer search technique, too. One of the problems with this approach, however, is that “.svn” folders are “hidden” folders and the explorer search does not include hidden files or folders, by default — you have to make sure to reconfigure the explorer search to include them.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:47:41 +0000

Hi Jim, I just search for “svn” in the explorer and then only delete the “svn folders”.