Archive for the 'subversion' Category

Versions: A new Mac Subversion Client

Published at 20 June 2008 in mac and subversion. 0 Comments

I downloaded the beta of Versions a few days back and I really like it. It just feels… well.. Mac like. It’s easy to setup Working copy bookmarks, as it calls them, for your existing projects and just links right in.

I still use Subclipse within Eclipse for most things but I find it tends to hang when doing large commits so Versions is a real help.

Well worth a look

Remove hidden .svn folders

Published at 21 November 2007 in mac and subversion. 0 Comments

Occasionally I want to copy some folders from one project to another using Finder, however, this also copies hidden .svn folders over which can cause problems later on. So after a little googling I found a nice way to recursively remove all .svn folders via the Terminal.

1 .Fire up Terminal.app and move to the folder you just copied:

$ cd Sites/mynewsite

Please double check you’re in the right folder with pwd before proceeding

2. You can check for the existence of .svn folders with the command:

$ find . -type d -name .svn

3. You can now pass this search into rm using grave accents (the backwards slanting ones to the left of the Z key)

$ rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Nice. If you were being really clever you could put this lot into a nice shell script to avoid having to remember the commands.