Script to remove .svn directories from a project

29 Jun 2008 Matteo Mattei bash linux svn tricks

When you want to distribute your own sources without any .svn directories is sufficient to create an export of the project with this command:

svn export svn://path_to_repository projectname

But often I have not access to the repository, so I remove any .svn directory by hand.

For a couple of directories is not a problem but today I have a big project with hundreds of directories, so I created a little script to help me:

find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -r '{}' \;

Replace “.” with your root folder.