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

From: Geoff Hoffman <ghoffman_at_cardinalpath.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:43:07 -0700

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:45:13AM -0700, Geoff Hoffman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The issue tracker has not been migrated to apache.org yet.
> See http://subversion.apache.org/reporting-issues.html#queries
>
> The bug is 3 years old because someone had the same feature
> idea 3 years ago, filed an issue, and nothing has happened since.
>
> > 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.
>
> svn revert deletes some unversioned files in certain circumstances.
> This was recently discussed here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/134154
>
> In my opinion removing unversioned data is not the job of 'svn revert'.
> It is supposed to roll back the working copy into the state that it was in
> after the last checkout or update. In other words, it destroys changes
> made to *versioned* files and directories.
>
> Anyway, which subcommand this feature belongs in is a question that should
> be answered by a concrete design proposal. It doesn't really matter all
> that much.
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes, and the world would be full of flying pigs, too!
>
> > 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?
>
> See http://subversion.apache.org/source-code.html (linked from the
> very bottom of the download page -- perhaps not as easy to find as it
> should be).
>

Very helpful, as usual. Thanks Stefan.

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