Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
Summary:
I would like to have a new option --remove-unversioned-files to svn cleanup. When calling
svn cleanup --remove-unversioned-files PATH
using this option it would -- in addition to cleanup already performed today -- traverse the working
copy at PATH and remove all unversioned files and directories found.
Usecase:
My primary usecase where I would like to be able to use this new option is a period merge of trunk into
a branch. Best practices for this use case require having a clean, up-to-date working copy of the
branch. Often, after cleaning up and updating, my working copy contains artifacts created from
automatic tests, which I neither want to keep nor commit into the repository. In this situation it would
be very handy to have this option.
Other solutions:
Many users I have talked to have written custom scripts performing this task such as
svn status | grep '^?' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf
I argue that svn support of --remove-unversioned-files would be a safer alternative. Scripts like the
one above are error prone (this one contains a bug when the working copy contains paths with spaces).
Other users checkout separate working copies which are used exclusively for merging.
References:
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=2429229
It would be awesome if this enhancement made it into a future version of subversion.
Original issue reported by tobiashahn