How to remove untracked files in SVN
SvnVersion ControlSvn Problem Overview
How can I remove all untracked files from an SVN checkout with the svn
command line tool? Git and Hg offer clean
and purge
commands for this purpose, but I can't find the corresponding command in SVN.
I don't care if I have to revert all my local modifications in the process (in which case I'd essentially want to restore my checkout to a pristine state) or whether local modifications to tracked files can remain intact; either situation is acceptable.
Svn Solutions
Solution 1 - Svn
There may be a built-in way, but if so, I don't know of it. However, something like the following should do the job:
svn st | grep '^?' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf
(All unversioned files should appear in a line beginning with ?
in an svn st
.)
EDIT (@GearoidMurphy) It's challenging to get this snippet to work on a cygwin environment, as xargs treats the windows path slashes as escape sequences and has trouble parsing the '\r\n' line endings, below is my adapted solution of this perfectly valid answer:
svn st | grep '^?' | gawk '{printf(\"%s|\", $2)}' | xargs -d "|" -n1 C:\cygwin\bin\rm -r
Solution 2 - Svn
Since version 1.9, you can use the following:
svn cleanup . --remove-unversioned
See https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html#svn-cleanup-options
Solution 3 - Svn
The svn-clean script does precisely this, though it does rely on having perl installed. It will leave local modifications intact but will remove ignored files. Run with '-p' to preview the files that will be removed.
Solution 4 - Svn
This command should do the job, spaces and all (tried on OSX only):
svn status | grep '^\?' | sed 's/? *//' | xargs -I% rm -fr %