Question

Specifically I am wanting to know how to do the ‘delete unversioned/ignored files’ part of the command. I want to do this so I can emulate a clean checkout myself, our repository is big and a full checkout takes a fair while.

Answer 1

Not sure how Jenkins does this, but I’d assume it uses svn status to find unversioned/ignored files.

Here’s 2 powershell scripts I use to do this:

#remove_ignored.ps1 (only removes ignored files, leaves unversioned)

param([switch] $WhatIf)

# Find all items with the status of I in svn
# Strip the leading status code and whitespace
# Grab the item for said path (either FileInfo or DirectoryInfo)
$paths = (svn status --no-ignore | Where-Object {$_.StartsWith('I')} | ForEach-Object {$_.SubString(8)} | ForEach-Object {Get-Item -Force $_})

$paths | ForEach-Object {
    if (-not $WhatIf) {
        # Check if the path still exists, in case it was a nested directory or something strange like that
        if ($_.Exists) {
            # If its a directory info, tell it to perform a recursive delete
            if ($_ -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo]) { $_.Delete($true) }
            else { $_.Delete() }
        }
    }

    Write-Host "Deleted $_"
}

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#remove_unversioned.ps1 (removes both ignored and unversioned files)
param([switch] $WhatIf)

# Find all items with the status of I or ? in svn
# Strip the leading status code and whitespace
# Grab the item for said path (either FileInfo or DirectoryInfo)
$paths = (svn status --no-ignore | Where-Object {$_.StartsWith('I') -or $_.StartsWith('?')} | ForEach-Object {$_.SubString(8)} | ForEach-Object {Get-Item -Force $_})

$paths | ForEach-Object {
    if (-not $WhatIf) {
        # Check if the path still exists, in case it was a nested directory or something strange like that
        if ($_.Exists) {
            # If its a directory info, tell it to perform a recursive delete
            if ($_ -is [System.IO.DirectoryInfo]) { $_.Delete($true) }
            else { $_.Delete() }
        }
    }

    Write-Host "Deleted $_"
}