Tortoise SVN hidden _svn folders

Question

They are specially annoying when I need to upload to the server a web solution.

Is there a way of configuring SVN to create the _svn folders outside my working directory

Answer 1

+1 for the solution from Isak Savo.

And you can do an XCOPY and exclude "/svn" folders :

XCOPY %1 %1_deploy /EXCLUDE:C:\ExcludeSVN.txt /E /C /I /F /R /Y

Content of ExcludeSVN.txt :

/_svn

In fact, if you want to upoload to a web server, your exclude file can contains a lot more :

• .pdb
• .cs
• .resx
• .csproj
• .sln
• .webinfo
• .bak
• .sql
• .zip
• .vspscc
• .vssscc
• .scc
• \Web.config

Warning : If you exclude .cs files, you gave to re-copy .css file after

Answer 2

The really dirty way in Windows: Create a copy of your project, open Explorer, navigate to the directory the copy is in, and do a Find for everything ending with _svn. Once the search is done, select all and hit Delete.

Yuck! But it works really well.

Answer 3

if you use a nant script to enable deployment to the web server it has a _SVN and _SVN/** as automatic excludes when copying files. nant will filter out lots of unwaanted files when copying files via its copy task including:

• **/*~
• **/#*#
• **/.#*
• **/%*%
• **/CVS
• /CVS/
• **/.cvsignore
• **/.svn
• /.svn/
• **/_svn
• /_svn/
• **/SCCS
• /SCCS/
• **/vssver.scc
• /_vti_cnf/

you can read more about NANT at its project home page here : NANT Home

Answer 4

It's not (currently) possible to configure SVN (or TortoiseSVN) to create the .svn (or _svn) directories outside the working copy. I believe that the SVN 1.6 roadmap includes revisiting the working-copy library. The ability to put the administrative directories somewhere else might come out of this work, but I'm speculating.

You should use the "svn export" command to create a "clean" copy of your working copy (i.e. without the _svn directories). This works from the command line client.

If you're using TortoiseSVN, you can right-click on the working copy, and choose "Export...". This will ask you for a folder to export the files to. Alternatively, you can right-drag a working copy to a folder (one that's not a working copy), and TortoiseSVN will bring up a context menu; among the options are "SVN Export to here" and "SVN Export all to here", the latter also exporting files not under version control.

Answer 5

Robocopy deployment...

robocopy {source} {dest} /MIR /XD _svn /XD .svn

Answer 6

Use "svn export" to create a clean directory tree.