Removing .svn directories in Terminal

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Overvince · Tuesday 15th April at 20:24

Great, thank you very much!
This one should work too:
find . -name .svn | xargs rm -d -r

Dave · Friday 24th October at 07:27

Thanks for this command, saves me a *lot* of time running the ‘rm -rf ./*/.svn’ command, manually adding ‘*/’s until I *think* I got them all.. Shows how much I know about terminal! :)

One question though; in your post you write about how some ‘idiot’ did a checkout instead of an export to a development server. Can you elaborate on that? I recently started (actively, before I did it once-in-a-while) using svn to publish my websites. I use an .htaccess file to block out any possible user access to the .svn folders, but I do use the checkout method. I like the idea of being able to apply changes to the live site whenever I need to (ie. I’m not on my own machine, and need to run a small fix on the live site). I can then easily commit those changes, and fetch them back to my work machine(s) when I’m back.

Maybe I’m thinking completely wrong though, and it’s a major mistake to use this method. So, not trying to tell you you’re thinking wrong, just trying to figure out which way is ‘best’. Drop me a line via email if you want to discuss some more.

Thanks!

-Dave

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