Comments on: Delete .svn folders recursively

By: club penguin secrets

club penguin secrets — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:20:54 +0000

Intriguing , I am curious what the statistics are on your first point there…

By: Twitter Followers

Twitter Followers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:16:37 +0000

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By: Anitha

Anitha — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:44:55 +0000

Thank you for the information…..

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:46:16 +0000

This script helped my precious time a few moments ago. I am trying to create a replica of the repository. There is no documented way of doing so in VisualSVN so I was planning to relocate my existing current working copy to new location and then commit again. Numerous warnings and nags from TortoiseSVN about relocating the existing copy to new repo scared me. Now i will be wiping out all the svn data from my repository and check out the empty repo in the same working copy and safely commit it to create a replica. It was wonderful. Many thanks to you.

By: prashanth

prashanth — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:43:56 +0000

This is a good one for deleting the folder structure.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:32:54 +0000

Thanks for pointing it out Alec. However, this script was meant for batch file and not to be run as an individual command.

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:33:13 +0000

If you want to run this in the command line you will get a %%G was unexpected at this time error. You can fix this by replacing %%G with %G.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:13:02 +0000

You can create a batch file with this command. Put the batch file in the root directory where your repository exist and execute it.
The benefit of this approach is that you will not have to export your huge source code to some other place and will save huge amount of time. There are scenarios where you want to migrate your existing source code and check in to another empty repository. There can be similar such scenarios where a quick cleanup is the requirement and not the export.

By: mitzevo

mitzevo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:55:54 +0000

So I can just open a DOS/cmd box, cd to the WC dir, and run that command.. It has the same effect as “exporting” a WC right, nice tip!

Are there any benefits, pros, cons, etc. over using this than just using the normal “export” command? One, I could see that if you wanted to “convert” a WC to a non-WC (like an export), you could run this command in the WC to turn it into non-WC, etc.