Comments on: Deleting .svn files on OSX

By: jacob

jacob — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:20:28 +0000

a friend of mine wrote this air app that will remove all svn files as well. http://dinopetrone.com/tidysvn/

By: Ed Salvana

Ed Salvana — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:33:40 +0000

I use this mighty handy tool called SVN Zapper: http://alexking.org/projects/svn-zapper. Drag and drop a folder onto it and it gets rid of all .svn files!

By: Mikael Gueck

Mikael Gueck — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:13:03 +0000

The xargs command line would be

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 -n 100 rm -rf

Also, the GNU find command also accepts the parameter “-type d” which only selects directories.

By: Seb Lee-Delisle

Seb Lee-Delisle — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:44:33 +0000

Thanks for the tip felix, I’m trying it now

By: felix

felix — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:10:10 +0000

You might want to try Path Finder – a souped up Finder that has a ‘show hidden files’ toggle amongst other thing (tabs!). http://www.cocoatech.com/

By: Seb Lee-Delisle

Seb Lee-Delisle — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:37:55 +0000

yeah that’s true Matt, although I still often need to do this if I’ve moved files around etc.

By: Matthew Hare

Matthew Hare — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:34:02 +0000

With SVN, you can export a directory, or your entire project to another folder. This essentially gives you a copy of your project, without any SVN data attached/hidden.

By: John

John — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:40:09 +0000

Or use SVNUtil http://svnutil.riaforge.org/ written by my buddy Omar Gonzalez, which is an AIR app for doing the same thing.

By: Seb Lee-Delisle

Seb Lee-Delisle — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:09:51 +0000

ah that definitely would be the problem – thanks Mikael! So would an xargs version be :

find ./ -name “.svn” -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf -n 100

By: Mikael Gueck

Mikael Gueck — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:03:50 +0000

Sometimes when your project is large enough, it’s possible to use find | xargs in a way which overflows the maximum length of a single command line command. For these situations, xargs has a -n argument, which you can use, for example, to call a script which only accepts a single file name as an argument, by using the xargs argument -n 1. If your call to rm is overflowing, a reasonable argument would be -n 25.