Re: Feature request - SVN command to clean a working copy of all unversioned and ignored files and directories

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:10:39 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
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> Sorry, but to me this has got nothing to do with Subversion.

'course it does. It knows which files are to be ignored, and thus
can be savely thrown away, and it does know which files are not
under version control, and thus should be removed for a clean
working copy.

Likewise, svn forces me to use the \( -name .svn -prune \) clause
in all my find-greps, even though the presense of the .svn folders
is clearly svns business.

> Your CI tool is should clean up itself.

That would be not the CI tool but the entire build system, potentially
including editors used etc. pp. (CI being just an example of the usefulness
of an hypothetical 'svn cleanup'.) We go the way of keeping a clean
sandbox and making a copy of it for each build.

And it's not as if svn itself always cleans up after itself.

Andreas

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"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800