How do you remove subversion control for a folder?

Question

I have a folder c:\websites\test and it contains folders and files that were checked out from a repository that no longer exists.

How do I get subversion to stop tracking that folder and any of the subfolders and files? I know I could simply delete the .svn folder but there are a lot of sub-folders in many layers.

Answer 1

Try svn export.

You should be able to do something like this:

svn export /path/to/old/working/copy /path/to/plain/code

And then just delete the old working copy.

TortoiseSVN also has an export feature, which behaves the same way.

Answer 2

You can use "svn export" for creating a copy of that folder without svn data, or you can add that folder to ignore list

Answer 3

use the svn export command:

cd c:\websites\test
svn export c:\websites\test_copy

all files under version control will be exported, double check to make sure you haven't missed anything.

Answer 4

If you are running Windows then you can do a search on that folder for .svn and that will list them all. Pressing ctrl+a will select all of them and pressing delete will remove all the 'pesky' subversion stuff.

Answer 5

Also, if you are using TortoiseSVN, just export to the current working copy location and it will remove the .svn folders and files.

http://tortoisesvn.net/node/343

Answer 6

On Linux, this will work:

  find . -iname ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r

Answer 7

This did the trick for me:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2007/02/24/shell-command-remove-svn-folders.aspx

It lets you add a context menu action that will delete the .svn folder.

Funny - cause I just found it this morning...

Answer 8

This question is the same as: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160497/removing-svn-folders-from-project-for-deployment

Answer 9

Check this, http://www.hacktrix.com/how-to-delete-svn-folders-from-your-project-on-windows-linux-and-mac

Answer 10

This is a great tip about unversioning ... Many thanks ...