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Re: is there a way to..

From: Matt Sickler <crazyfordynamite_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-10 23:25:47 CEST

Something like
`svn st | grep ^? | xargs svn rm`
might work.

On 10/10/07, Reuben Avery <reuben@swirl.net> wrote:
> On 10/10/07 1:28 PM, "Ryan Schmidt" <subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Oct 10, 2007, at 13:07, Reuben Avery wrote:
> >
> >> i have a website in a subversion repository. there are literally
> >> hundreds and hundreds of orphan files and all kinds of other junk
> >> that are being identified to be deleted.
> >
> > What do you mean, "orphan files"? What do you mean, "being identified
> > to be deleted"? How are they being identified, and by whom or by what?
>
> meaning I am working with a site tree that has many files and directories
> which have been identified by human beings as no longer needed and have been
> deleted from a shared directory.
>
> >> 1) is there a way to create a "final" copy of this site sans all
> >> the .svn directories but then be able to have subversion crawl
> >> through the directory structure and create the .svn directories for
> >> each directory that exists in the same structure within the
> >> repository?
> >
> > I don't understand. I'm pretty sure the answer is "no"; the only way
> > you get the .svn directories at all is by running "svn checkout" to
> > make a new working copy from the repository. Or by running "svn
> > update", if the repository is delivering a new directory to your
> > existing working copy.
> >
> > What exactly are you trying to do?
>
> I am trying to synchronize the repository directory tree with the physical
> tree we now have post all the cleanup efforts. Before this process started,
> I pulled down the entire site tree and checked it into the repository.
>
> What I need to do is recursively walk the entire tree and for files that are
> no longer there but within the repository, perform an svn delete, and for
> directories which are no longer there but within the repository, do the
> same.
>
> I can use a software tool to compare the two directories (the SVN working
> copy and this physical non-SVN site tree) and remove those files which are
> in one but not the other (ignoring .svn directories, naturally).. So then,
> if I could run some sort of script which could compare this slimmed down WC
> to the repository and perform the necessary actions so that the repository
> will reflect this new structure, I will have success.
>
> >> and then
> >> 2) perform an svn delete against the repository for each file and
> >> directory which is in the repository but not in this directory
> >> structure?
> >
> > I really don't understand, but you can write a script to run "svn
> > delete" or any other operation you want to....
>
> but this is so complicated and tricky and my scripting skills are rather
> limited, I'm ashamed to say. Surely someone has written something like
> this? For "webmasters", particularly those dealing with client websites
> which are complete messes that we've been called in to rectify, this seems
> like a fairly common sort of task.
>
> Thanks again,
> Reuben
>
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