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

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Except for the part where not everyone should be forced to reinvent
>> > the wheel of 'put the sandbox in a pristine state' as in 'cd ..;
>> > rm -r $sandboxname; svn checkout -r $rev $url $sandboxname', but more
>> > efficiently and without hitting the network.
>>
>> Our VCS/CI and build slaves sit in the same lab on a fast network
>> (which seems like it would be the common arrangement...) so I've never
>> been particularly concerned about hitting the network - that's what it
>> is designed for.  And the CI knows how to do a clean checkout itself.
>
>
> Some of us have to work through VPN's, and have relatively large checkouts.
> A 100 Meg checkout is certainly not unusual in Java environments,
> where bulky .war files are common,  and that can be really slow over a home
> DSL setup or

That seems wrong or at least unnecessarily inconvenient for a CI
setup. And if you are doing it by hand, why not just delete
everything but your .svn directory and revert?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com