Remove a project from subversion control

About twice a year I need to completely remove a project from svn, I can never find/remember the snippet so I’m posting it on the internets.

# to remove svn from an existing app
find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
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3 Comments

  1. Phill Kenoyer
    Posted June 7, 2007 at 11:23 am | Permalink

    Wouldn’t it be easier to just export it?

    $ svn export file:///tmp/repos project

  2. Aaron Schaefer
    Posted June 7, 2007 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

    I’m not exactly sure why people do it, but I often see piping to xargs when it probably isn’t necessary. Why not just use the -exec functionality of find to do the same thing?

    find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

  3. K. Adam Christensen
    Posted June 8, 2007 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    @Aaron: Personally, I like doing the piping because before I run the rm, I want to make sure that I am deleting the right stuff first.

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