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Re: How to get rid of .svn directories from working copy?

From: Steve Bakke <steven.bakke_at_amd.com>
Date: 2007-02-16 14:56:09 CET

On 2/16/07 8:55 AM, "nbs" <nbs_r@gazeta.pl> wrote:

> I have a tool storing its data (electronics design) in a numerous binary
> files distributed over many subdirectories. It generally works well with
> SVN, except for the following issue.
>
> The tool has a GUI for design management, which permits copying, moving,
> renaming and deleting parts of the design. The problem is, all these
> functions operate recursively on whole subdirectories. If the user
> attempts to make a copy of a design part, a '.svn' directory belonging
> to it will be copied as well. This requires the user to manually delete
> '.svn' directory from the newly copied part before adding and commiting
> it to the repository.
>
> How to move all .svn directories out of the working copy directory? Is
> there any configuration option for this? Alternatively, how to prevent
> SVN client failure when it comes across bogus .svn data.
>
> Thank you,
> \R.
The only way I know of to do this is to use SVK as your command-line client.
It stores metadata outside of the directory tree, but uses the subversion
server. http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage

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