is there anyway to clean up old svn directories and files from old source code tree

Question

i have been sent a directory tree of source code that i want to import into my subversion repository. The issue is that at some point this code was in a different subversion repository. There are a huge number of directories and subdirectories and i basically want to clean up all of the subversion .svn folders before i attempt to import to a new repository and i dont want svn to get confused.

is there anyway to clean out a directory structure to remove all svn references?

Answer 1

In the root of the project, with GNU find:

find . -name .svn -execdir rm -r {} +

EDIT: Corrected, with thanks to rkulla. -delete does not -delete non-empty directories.

Answer 2

svn export will produce a copy of the source tree without the .svn folders. Example:

svn export <old_project_root> <new_name_of_clean_directory>

I believe TortoiseSVN also has this capability from within a menu.

Answer 3

Stefan, author of TortoiseSVN, has a complete explanation here. The gist of it is to use a built-in TortoiseSvn right-click helper to do the job like so:

Answer 4

For more possible solutions see the following question ‘Un-SVN’ a working copy.

One answer contains a Windows batch script that will cleanup all .svn folders.