Tag: svn

  • Recursively remove all .svn directories with xargs

    With xargs you can joing the output of one command to the input of another when a pipe doesn’t work. Check out this example:

    find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

  • Convert svn repository to git

    mkdir ~/Sites/repo_tmp
    cd ~/Sites/repo_tmp
    git-svn init https://svn.example.com/repo/trunk/ --no-metadata
    git config svn.authorsfile ~/Sites/git-users.txt
    git-svn fetch
    git-svn show-ignore > .gitignore
    git add .gitignore
    git commit -m "Convert svn ignored files to .gitignore"
    cd ~/Sites
    git clone repo_tmp repo