Not to be smartass, but I would do it like this:
1. Install cygwin
2a. rm -rf $(find -name .svn)
or, if that doesn't work (to many files), do
2b for f in `find -name .svn`; do rm $f; done
No patch required, works *MUCH* faster than Windows Explorer + Find +
Delete.
Cheers,
B
John Szakmeister wrote:
>On Tuesday 19 October 2004 03:16, S.Ramaswamy wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:36, Nik Derewianka wrote:
>>
>>
>[snip]
>
>
>>>We do multimedia development for cd's and dvds - big projects with
>>>lots of files. Using svn with bdb via apache2 on a win2k3 server, we
>>>havent had any problems as yet during the trials (only just ramping
>>>up to full production team now). The only annoying thing i have
>>>found for large projects is getting rid of the .svn folders when you
>>>have lots of nested folders and you have to prep the project for a
>>>disk image. Currently i do a search on the project folder for
>>>'.svn', select just the folders in the results pane and delete.. but
>>>that doesnt work as nicely as possible (windows is the culprit here -
>>>nothing to do with svn). Would be nice if tortoise had a 'Strip .svn
>>>folders' option.
>>>
>>>
>>If you are trying to get a clean copy of your tree, minus the '.svn'
>>directories, then 'svn export' does the job.
>>
>>
>
>I think he's saying that he's got a large working copy, and he's trying
>not to duplicate it on-disk. Unfortunately, the best way to do that is
>just as Nik described, removing the .svn directories. I wonder if we
>could beef up the export interface a little and allow 'svn export . .
>--force' to do the right thing here.
>
>-John
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