Re: svn-clean

Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
> Since "make distclean" craps out more often than not, and I wanted to
> get rid of all files which aren't in the repository, I wrote the
> following script to nuke anything not managed by SVN. Now, I'm cheating
> because I'm poking in .svn/entries, which I'd call a no-no.
>
> Better would be to use "svn status", but that craps out if I'm off of
> the network. A bummer, since the information I want is available
> locally. Is there another way?

"svn status" shouldn't use the network unless you use the -u argument.
Try something like this (untested):

     $ svn status --no-ignore | egrep '^\?' | cut -c8- | xargs rm -f

It will break if filenames contain spaces, but in the Subversion
repository they don't.

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Received on Thu Aug 15 22:45:17 2002