Delete all files being ignored within a Subversion checkout

Question

How can I delete all files that are being ignored within a Subversion checkout? Effectively to bring it back to the equivalent of a pristine checkout.

Answer 1

I use this script when I want to clean out a working copy. It removes all unknown and ignored files.

svn status --no-ignore | awk '$1=="?"||$1=="I" { print $2 }' | xargs -i rm -rf {}

Answer 2

If TortoiseSVN, you can Check for modifications, Show ignored files, right click and delete.

Answer 3

You may want to first reverse the ignore state of those files (ref http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326649/how-do-i-unignore-a-file-in-tortoisesvn for details) and then you can delete and commit back the changes from your workspace methinks.

Answer 4

Here's another way of doing it.

svn status --no-ignore | grep "^[\?I]" | sed 's%^........%%' | xargs -d "\\n" rm -rv