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

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:56:34PM +0000, Simon Dean wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Are there any plans to add a command to SVN that cleans a working copy
> or path of all unversioned and/or ignored files and directories?
>
> There is a related open feature request in our issue tracker:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3549
> As far as I know, nobody is currently working on this.
> You could add yourself to the Cc list there to be informed once the
> status of this issue changes.
>
>
I would +1 this feature although what this thread has taught me is that my
IDE (NetBeans) takes care of this automagically. I didn't realize it wasn't
built into SVN.

A couple of things I find interesting... the bug tracker you linked to is 3
years old and still on tigris.org. Assuming that is still the valid place
for tracking subversion features & bugs?

Hypothetically speaking, how would svn revert --recursive *--force* PATH be
different/better than svn cleanup *--remove-unversioned-files* PATH (a bit
verbose IMO)? I guess it does make more sense for the proposed feature to
be a switch on svn cleanup.

Cool idea/feature though.

Or, instead of waiting passively, you could try to compose a detailed
> design spec for this feature and send it for discussion to the dev@
> list. Once this discussion reaches consensus on the proposed design
> you could implement it and send a patch.
>

This is one of those features that shouldn't involve too much work,
> and where new contributors could get their feet wet with design and
> implementation work. And it is quite a popular feature request so anyone
> who designs and implements this will earn a good stash of community
> karma points.

This is such great advice. If as many people would give to open source as
take from it, imagine how much richer everything would be?

I went over to http://subversion.apache.org/download/ and
was surprised there doesn't seem to be an svn checkout option, even read
only?

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