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Recursively removing SVN bindings with PowerShell
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
I was up until 4AM last night because I had a catastrophic server failure on my SVN server. My SVN server had a mirrored raid volume, and one of the disks failed. I replaced the disk and was recovering the mirror when Windows blue-screened and the volume was corrupted completely beyond repair. Never a fun thing, but this is why I am so heavy on the backup process. I had a backup up until the previous night, but had done a bunch of programming during the day yesterday. I decided I would need to migrate the changes with my backup after restoring the repositories.
The bad part of this is that I only had my changes on the local SVN checkout of my repositories, and therefore needed to remove the SVN bindings and copy-over the checkout of my new SVN repositories. If you don't remove the bindings, SVN tends to do some very funky things, which result in a completely useless checkout.
PowerShell definitely came to the rescue for me on this one, I just ran this command, and all of my problems were solved:
Get-ChildItem -Include .svn -Recurse -Force | ForEach-Object { del $_.FullName -Recurse -Force }
This is assuming that your subversion metadata is stored in .svn folders (the default behavior). Older versions of TortoiseSVN may require that you change .svn to _svn. To view how your metadata is stored, go to your SVN checkout, go to the folder options, and select to view hidden and system folders and files.
I am continually loving PowerShell more and more, very impressive, very useful, very nerdy.
PowerShellin' Tom Out.
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PowerShell
SVN
System_Maintenance
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Kevin said on Monday, April 20th, 2009 @ 9:01 AM
There's also SVNcleaner
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