Thanks heaps, was able to use the find and rm command on OSX too. Worked a treat.

Thank you for this!

I had a problem with SVN not wanting to “update”.
To fix the problem all the .svn folders needed to be deleted, and export was not an option. Your method saved me hours of deleting folders in a cmd window.

Thank you again!
Drew – http://www.iportalx.net

Simply Press F3 and search for .svn ……
Just take care of three things:

1. Tool–Folder Option–View…….Make sure that Show hidden files and folder is true (By selecting the radio button)

2. While searching, go to Advance Option, and check the first 3 check boxes (1. Search System Folder, 2. Search Hidden files and folder 3. Seacrh subfolder

3. Press Search and delete the required svn folder.

> True but but export requires you to pull your code over the network

svn export works on local directories as well “svn export ~/WorkingTrunk ~/CleanTrunk”

Yeah, either way is fine. What I wanted to do is to put a zip file with all the code on the project page, in case someone just wants to look at it but doesn’t want to or know how to mess around with SVN.

So my first instinct was to make a copy of my work directory and delete the .svn files. I could have just exported from SVN but then I would be downloading all the code that I just checked in just so that I can zip it and upload it again.

Not that my connection is slow, but it just seemed like a pointless waste of bandwidth at the time. ;P

right, but then you’re own working copy is broken and next time you want to work on this project, you have to check it out of repository again … same problem ?

Then I’d rather use tar to bundle your repository, using the –exclude not to archive the “.svn” directories… No network overhead, plus the extra bonus of making an easy to get, compressed archive… :-) (I feel like selling a hoover :D)

But alright, the point was to do this on Windows, so your registry hack does the job !

True but but export requires you to pull your code over the network connection. Copying the repository locally and then removing the meta-data folder might be faster and more convenient.

Also, sometimes your work folder might contain files which would usually not be in the repository, but which you might want to archive or share – like binaries.

I’d rather use “svn export” to get a fresh copy out of the repository, without the “.svn” directories :-)