What I need is to extract all .svn-folders from a project within their original directory structure and make a tar file out of it. So that in the archive I have only the emtpy folders with all .svn-folders and their contents in it.
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What I need is to extract all .svn-folders from a project within their original directory structure and make a tar file out of it. So that in the archive I have only the emtpy folders with all .svn-folders and their contents in it.
You can do this by using tar a bit like cpio, by selecting directories using find. EG:
If you want, you can avoid problems with whitespace using -print0 instead of -print, and tar –null.