Automatically remove Subversion unversioned files

Question

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

Answer 1

I would add this as a comment to Thomas Watnedal's answer , but can't yet.

A minor issue with it (which won't affect Windows) is that it only checks for files or directories. For Unix like systems where symbolic links may be present, it is necessary to change the line:

if os.path.isfile(fullpath):

to

if os.path.isfile(fullpath) or os.path.islink(fullpath):

to also remove links.

For me, changing the last line if match: removeall(match.group(1)) into

    if match:
        print "Removing " + match.group(1)
        removeall(match.group(1))

so that it displays what it is removing was useful too.

Depending on the use case, the ?[\?ID] part of the regular expression may be better as ?[\?I], as the D also removes deleted files, which were under version control. I want to use this to build in a clean, checked in folder, so there should be no files in a D state.

Answer 2

A clean way to do this in PERL would be:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::CaptureOutput 'capture_exec'

my $command = sprintf ("svn status --no-ignore | grep '^?' | sed -n 's/^\?//p'");

my ( $stdout, $stderr, $success, $exit_code ) = capture_exec ( $command );
my @listOfFiles = split ( ' ', $stdout );

foreach my $file ( @listOfFiles )
{ # foreach ()
    $command = sprintf ("rm -rf %s", $file);
    ( $stdout, $stderr, $success, $exit_code ) = capture_exec ( $command );
} # foreach ()

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

See: svn-clean

Answer 5

Subversion 1.9.0 introduced option to remove unversioned items [1]

svn cleanup --remove-unversioned

[1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html#svn-cleanup-options

Answer 6

@zhoufei I tested your answer and here is updated version:

FOR /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%G IN ('svn st %~1 ^| findstr "^?"') DO del /s /f /q "%%H"
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%G IN ('svn st %~1 ^| findstr "^?"') DO rd /s /q "%%H"

• You must use two % marks in front of G and H
• Switch the order: first remove all files, then remove all directories
• (optional:) In place of %~1 can be used any directory name, I used this as a function in a bat file, so %~1 is first input paramter