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Automatically remove Subversion unversioned files

Asked 2008-10-27T08:39:35.283
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Does anybody know a way to recursively remove all files in a working copy that are not under version control? (I need this to get more reliable results in my automatic build VMware.)

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this works for me in bash:

 svn status | egrep '^\?' | cut -c8- | xargs rm

Seth Reno's is better:

svn status | grep ^\? | cut -c9- | xargs -d \\n rm -r 

It handles unversioned folders and spaces in filenames

As per comments below, this only works on files that subversion doesn't know about (status=?). Anything that subversion does know about (including Ignored files/folders) will not be deleted.

If you are using subversion 1.9 or greater you can simply use the svn cleanup command with --remove-unversioned and --remove-ignored options

answered 2008-10-27T08:52:13.277
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See: svn-clean

answered 2009-11-24T12:44:28.167

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