Question

In perforce you can issue a ‘sync to none’ command to remove files from the client, but leave them untouched in the depot (or repository in svn lingo).

p4 sync …#none

Is there a similar command in svn?

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Edit:

Thanks to those that have answered so far.

To clarify:

I don’t want to use rm -rf on the directory, since it will remove all files, even those that are local only. I also don’t want to have to go through by hand deleting individual files which are on the client and in the repository.

The ‘p4 sync …#none’ command allows me to remove files from the client, which are in the depot/repository, and leaves local only files alone.

With a small set of files, this is not a big deal, but with numerous files it is painful to do by hand.

Answer 1

So you basically want to remove all files that are versioned and unmodified?

You could cook up a script that iterates through all files and calls “svn status” on them, removing the files where “svn status” gives empty output…

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EDIT: a naïve python script to remove files that are unmodified. Keeps unversioned and local-modified files… this is slow, would be better to issue a “svn stat -v” and parse that. The script only removes files, it doesn’t touch folders.

import os
from subprocess import *

def isUnchangedInRepo(name):
    output = Popen(["svn","stat",name], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
    return len(output) == 0

for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'):
    for filename in filenames:
        testfile = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
        if(testfile.find("\\.svn") == -1) and isUnchangedInRepo(testfile):
            print testfile
#           os.remove(testfile)