How do you remove Subversion control for a folder

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I have a folder  c  websites test  and it contains folders and files that were checked out from a repository that no longer exists  How do I get Subversion to stop tracking that folder and any of the subfolders and files    I know I could simply delete the  svn folder  but there are a lot of sub-folders in many layers

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If you are running Windows then you can do a search on that folder for  svn and that will list them all  Pressing Ctrl   A will select all of them and pressing delete will remove all the  pesky  Subversion stuff

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It worked well for me   find directory to delete  -type d -name    svn    xargs rm -rf

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Without subshells in Linux to delete  svn folders   find   -name  svn -exec rm -r -f       rm   remove -r   recursive  folders  -f   force  avoids a lot of  a your sure you want to delete file XY

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Use the svn export command   cd c  websites test svn export c  websites test copy   All files under version control will be exported  Double check to make sure you haven t missed anything

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On Windows 10  we need to go to Windows Explorer  and then go to View and check the checkbox for View hidden files   Then navigate to the folder that has the SVN linked on Windows Explorer and delete the  svn folder file

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THE BEST AND EASIEST WAY   If you think that you could win with a simple magic command you are failed  SVN is really tricky and always come back somehow with a new error message in Xcode  Sooner or later  promise    so you have to do it smart   As you know the regular and best practice under Xcode is deleting a file on the project pane on the left  If you missed it and somehow deleted it in Finder you are in trouble  Big trouble  But you could solve it and spare time if you do it well   First  you need to delete the SVN reference to the file or folder before you could delete it actually   If you could just put back the file folder from the trash or undo the last step when you deleted it  then    Go to Terminal - yes  the good old terminal - and go to that location  Best way just type cd then pull the folder file to the Terminal  You will get something similar      cd  Users UserName Documents Apps Developing       You could check where are you with     ls   command which list your files    Then you need to delete the svn reference with an SVN command   svn delete --keep-local fileName toDelete   This will delete the file from the SVN repository  BUT you have to delete it manually in Finder

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My idea is to remove the  svn folder and then move all other files to a new folder  It is as simple as that

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Check this  http   www hacktrix com how-to-delete-svn-folders-from-your-project-on-windows-linux-and-mac

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Try svn export   You should be able to do something like this   svn export  path to old working copy  path to plain code   And then just delete the old working copy   TortoiseSVN also has an export feature  which behaves the same way

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NetBeans IDE users can do it as below    Open the SVN project in your IDE Select the project     right click   Subversion   Export  In the dialog box     export to folder    var tmp projectname   press export   wait   will show complete   will ask do you want to open it do open on the  fly  You can now switch to Git

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Use the following   svn rm --keep-local  lt folder name gt  to remove the folder and everything within it   svn rm --keep-local  lt folder name gt    to keep the folder  but remove everything within the folder   Here is an example of what happens     code web sites testapp   svn rm --keep-local includes data   D         includes data json D         includes data json index html D         includes data json oembed D         includes data json oembed 1 0 D         includes data json oembed 1 0 embed1 json D         includes data json oembed 1 0 embed2 json D         includes data json oembed 1 0 embed3 json

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There s also a nice little open source tool called SVN Cleaner which adds three options to the Windows Explorer Context Menu    Remove All  svn Remove All But Root  svn Remove Local Repo Files

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Another  simpler  Linux solution   rm -r  find  path to foo -name  svn

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Just remove the  svn folder inside the required folder then the control will be automatically removed

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I found that you don t even need to copy to a temporary location  You can do a  svn export --force     and the  svn files will be removed in situ  leaving the other files as is  Very convenient and less prone to clutter

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On Linux  this will work     find   -iname   svn  -print0   xargs -0 rm -r

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From a Windows command line   rmdir  svn  s  q

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I use rsync     copy folder src to srcStripped excluding subfolders named   svn   retain dates  verbose output rsync -av --exclude  svn src srcStripped

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For those using NetBeans with SVN  there is an option  Subversion   Export

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On Windows  you can add a quicklink for that to your explorer right click menu   Just start this registry script   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Folder shell DeleteSVN     Delete SVN Folders    HKEY CLASSES ROOT Folder shell DeleteSVN command     cmd exe  c   TITLE Removing SVN Folders in  1  amp  amp  COLOR 9A  amp  amp  FOR  r    1     f IN   svn  DO RD  s  q     f         This will add an item called  Delete SVN Folders  to your right click menu  This will delete all  svn folders in this folder and all subfolders   Source  German   http   www sjmp de software alle-svn-ordner-und-dateien-loeschen

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svn export works fine  but I think this is   svn rm --keep-local  lt folder file gt    It removes it from your local repository

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On Windows 7 one can just open the project folder and do a search for   svn  if hidden files are enabled and delete all found  svn folders

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You can use  svn export  for creating a copy of that folder without svn data  or you can add that folder to ignore list

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The answer is surprisingly simple - export the folder to itself  TortoiseSVN detects this special case and asks if you want to make the working copy unversioned  If you answer yes the control directories will be removed and you will have a plain  unversioned directory tree

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As a vital point  when you use the shell to delete  svn folders  you need the -depth argument to prevent the find command entering the directory that was just deleted and showing error messages like e g       find     svn  No such file or directory    As a result  you can use the find command like below   cd  dir to delete svn folders  find   -depth -name  svn -exec rm -fr

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On Linux the command is   svn delete --keep-local file name

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Also  if you are using TortoiseSVN  just export to the current working copy location and it will remove the  svn folders and files   http   tortoisesvn net docs release TortoiseSVN en tsvn-dug-export html tsvn-dug-export-unversion  Updated Answer for Subversion 1 7  In Subversion 1 7 the working copy has been revised extensively  There is only one  svn folder  located in the base of the working copy  If you are using 1 7  then just deleting the  svn folder and its contents is an easy solution  regardless of using TortoiseSVN or command line tools

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None of these answers was satisfactory for my situation  I m on subversion 1 8 and I had a working copy that only had a single  svn folder at the very first folder  root  However  I wanted to remove some branches from working copy   No matter what I did  whenever I ran an  update  it would restore those files and bring them all back  I didn t want to remove them from the repository  just from my computer -- but I needed to keep the rest of the working copy in tact  thus couldn t just remove the  svn folder    Solution  svn update --set-depth exclude  lt dir gt   This is a client-side  update  that excludes a specific directory  It can be found in the manuals at svnbook com  In short  it describes this as      Beginning with Subversion 1 6  you can take a different approach  First  check out the directory in full  Then run svn update --set-depth exclude on the one subdirectory you don t care about    For TortoiseSVN  you can also do the same thing by right-clicking the folder you don t want  click on Update to revision     and then set the  Update Depth  to Exclude  as seen in this screen shot

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When you are using the Windows OS  go to your folder location and check hidden files are open  and then you can see the SVN folder in there  Just remove that folder

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