# find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

will go thru a project and recursively remove the .svn metadata.

4 Responses to “How to recursively remove svn metadata”


  1. This is a little nicer:

    find -name “.svn” -type d -print | xargs rm -rf {}


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  3. pragmatig Says:

    coment above has slanted quotes, will not work ;)

    alias remove_svn_folders=”find -name ‘.svn’ -type d -print | xargs rm -rf {}”

  4. BiomimaRism Says:

    Hi!
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