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svnleave - a Tool for Cleaning-up and SVN Directory

When you need to copy a project that resides in a Subversion repository to another location or send a piece of the source code by email, you need to clean the all .svn or _svn files from its directory structure.

I know an easy way to do this by the TortoiseSVN GUI client for Windows:

SVN export

This works pretty well but sometime you need more simple solution: removing all .svn directories from given project. I didn’t found any useful tool for this so I wrote one: svnleave.

My favourite programming language for writing such small programs is C#. It is highly productive, user friendly, have very good development environment and runs on any Windows machine (I mostly use Windows as desktop).

Here is the source code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

/**
 * This utility deletes all ".svn" and "_svn" directories from
 * the current directory and its subdirectories recursively. It
 * is helpful when you need to send to somebody a part of your
 * project that is under version control with Subversion.
 *
 * The "svn export" command can help in most cases but this
 * solution can be better when you cannot perform export.
 */
class SVNLeave
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string currentDir = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
        DeleteSVNDirectories(currentDir);
    }

/**
     * Deletes all ".svn" and "_svn" directories from given directory
     * recursively in depth.
     */
    private static void DeleteSVNDirectories(string path)
    {
        string[] subdirs = Directory.GetDirectories(path);
        foreach (string subdir in subdirs)
        {
            FileInfo subdirFileInfo = new FileInfo(subdir);
            String subdirName = subdirFileInfo.Name;
            if ((subdirName == ".svn") || (subdirName == "_svn"))
            {
                DeleteSubdirectory(subdir);
            }
            else
            {
                DeleteSVNDirectories(subdir);
            }
        }
    }

/**
     * Deletes a directory along with all its subdirectories. Unlike
     * Directory.Delete(path, true) deletes read-only and system files.
     */
    private static void DeleteSubdirectory(string path)
    {
        string[] subdirs = Directory.GetDirectories(path);
        foreach (string subdir in subdirs)
        {
            DeleteSubdirectory(subdir);
        }

string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path);
        foreach (String file in files)
        {
            File.SetAttributes(file, FileAttributes.Normal);
            File.Delete(file);
        }

File.SetAttributes(path, FileAttributes.Normal);
        Directory.Delete(path, false);
    }

}

A compiled version svnleave for .NET Framework 2.0 is available for download here: svnleave.exe.

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5 Responses to “svnleave - a Tool for Cleaning-up and SVN Directory”

0xdeadc0de says:

Това горе прилича на трепане на муха с топ.

Ползване на WinRAR за архивиране на всичко без .svn:

Файла се изпълнява от директорията, чийто архив искаме да създадем (заедно със всички под-директории)

–8 xclude.txt
echo archive.bat >> xclude.txt
dir /a /b /s .svn* >> xclude.txt

c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -m0 -r -x@xclude.txt backup.rar *
–8 filelist.txt

for /F %%x in (filelist.txt) do (
rd /s /q %%x
)

del filelist.txt
–8

September 18th, 2007 at 11:05 am

0xdeadc0de says:

Що за некултурен escape na < ?

повтарян, като си го escape-вам сам:

–[archive.bat]–
@echo off
echo xclude.txt > xclude.txt
echo archive.bat >> xclude.txt
dir /a /b /s .svn* >> xclude.txt
dir /a /b /s vssver.scc >> xclude.txt

c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -m0 -r -x@xclude.txt backup.rar *
—–

–[delete.bat]–
@echo off
dir /a /b /s .svn* > filelist.txt

for /F %%x in (filelist.txt) do (
rd /s /q %%x
)

del filelist.txt
—–

September 18th, 2007 at 11:12 am

nakov says:

Thank you ofr the interesting comment, 0xdeadc0de. It is nice to use shell scripts in Windows, eventhough I hate the syntax it uses.

Please next time post in English because this blog is in English only.

September 18th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

jmut says:

Can you give example of not able to use export but rather this…executable of yours?
Kind of useless I think

September 27th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

nakov says:

Can you give example of not able to use export but rather this…executable of yours?
Kind of useless I think.

You can receive by email some code that contains folders with .svn files. This tool is the easiest way to cleanup the code before importing it in Eclipse or Visual Studio.

September 27th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

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