SVN Delete using template?

Question

I migrate the VSS repository to SVN and inadvertently included all the _vti_cnf, * .scc files in the first registration. I would like to remove them from SVN. (Not always, of course, only in HEAD). This application is quite large, and the search and deletion of these files in a folder by folder will be performed forever.

Suggestions? There must be some obvious way to do this, but the proximity of the weekend is interfering with my higher brain functions.

Answer 1

Jonas' answer should be well reflected. Perhaps you are having conflicts because you are deleting them at the file system level, bypassing Subversion control?

If you can use TortoiseSVN , the following works for me (= I get the necessary commands in the context menu):

• Open the search box
• Search for all junk files
• Select them from the list.
• Right click
• Choose TortoiseSVN> Delete
• Commit changes

Done!

Usually a disclaimer when providing recommendations for version control, be careful backups, I do not take any responsibility, etc.

Answer 2

On the Windows command line, you can perform a recursive search for files using the "for" and call "svn delete" for each corresponding file,

C:\> for /r %i in (abc*def.sql) do svn delete %i 

NB: remember that in the batch file you will need to replace% i with %% i.

To find out about all the other flags that you can use with "for" (this is a Swiss army knife for searching and parsing), use the help command,

 C:\> help for 

Answer 3

If you are using Linux or Mac OS, you can go with find , for example

 $ find . -type d -name "_vti_cnf" -exec svn delete {} \; 

I am no longer an SVN user (and never used VSS), so you can change the command line first and / or try with -print .

Answer 4

Can't you just grep (or some other operation that finds the files) * .scc files in the extracted version, delete them and then commit them?

Answer 5

Or use PowerShell:

 Foreach ($file in Get-Childitem * -include "*.txt") { svn del $file.name } 

where * .txt is a wildcard and * indicates the current directory where to look for files to be deleted