I do a search on .svn using Explorer in my project directory and they come up fine. But when I try to highlight all the .svn folders in my search results it appears that they are deleted by the dialog but they're stil there. I can't get rid of them!
nice, that deletes most but I still have some .svn folders lingering around
CoffeeAddict
2009-08-03 13:25:01
+2
A:
Why do you want to delete the .svn folders in a working copy?
If you want a "clean" copy of any given tree version, you can easily use SVN Export (available from the Tortoise SVN menu).
Justice
2009-08-03 13:20:10
I don't understand your workflow, or the way you are attempting to use Subversion. Why do you have important but non-versioned files in a Subversion working copy? At any rate, you can export and then copy the non-versioned files that did not get exported. Or, if you're feeling cool, you can: add all the important non-versioned files, create a branch with the working copy as the source so that the commit *to a new branch* picks up the added files, switch the working directory to point to the branch, and export. You can even switch back and delete the branch when you're done.
Justice
2009-08-03 14:20:52
NO, I just wanted to disassociate my local folder with svn altogether...all the code as if I were to start from scratch because I wanted to re-add it fresh to a new repository.
CoffeeAddict
2009-08-18 21:11:11
+1
A:
You can drag the versioned folder to the destination folder using the right mouse button and when your mouse pointer is over the desired drop location let the button go and select the "SVN export all items here" option from the context menu that pops up. This should copy over both the versioned and unversioned files without the .svn directory. I hope its not some additional application that I installed that gives me this option but maybe you should try it.
Draco
2009-08-03 13:28:24