svn - 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 VMware.)

Answer 1

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