SVN command to delete all locally missing files

Question

In SVN is there a command I can use to delete all locally missing files in a directory?

Or failing that, some way of listing only those files that are missing (or, in the more general case, have status A, D, ?, etc.)

Answer 1

An alternative that works on Linux (bash) for to-be-removed files not containg spaces in path:

svn delete `svn status | grep ! | awk '{print $2}'`

Answer 2

If you are using TortoiseSVN, just do a Check for Modifications, sort by the Status column, select all the entries marked missing, right-click to open the context menu, and select Delete. Finally, commit to publish the changes to the repository.

If you are on Windows, but prefer the command-line and enjoy dabbling in PowerShell, this one-liner will do the trick:

svn status | ? { $_ -match '^!\s+(.*)' } | % { svn rm $Matches[1] }

That is, filter the output to only those lines showing missing files (denoted by an exclamation at the start of the line), capture the associated file name, and perform an svn rm on that file name.

(Blog post Remove all “missing” files from a SVN working copy does something similar for Unix/Linux.)

Answer 3

This shell script, recursively examines (svn status) directories in your project, removing missing files (as the question demands) and adding new files to the repository. It is some sort of "store into the repository the current snapshot of the project".

if [ $# != 1 ]
then
    echo  "usage: doSVNsnapshot.sh DIR"
    exit 0
fi

ROOT=$1

for i in `find ${ROOT} -type d \! -path "*.svn*" `
do

    echo
    echo "--------------------------"
    ( cd $i ; 
    echo $i
    echo "--------------------------"


    svn status | awk '  
            /^[!]/ { system("svn rm " $2) }
            /^[?]/ { system("svn add " $2) }
        '
    )
    echo

done

Answer 4

It is actually possible to completely remove the missing.list from user3689460 and Paul Martin

for /F "tokens=* delims=! " %%A in ('svn status ^| findstr /R "^!"') do (svn delete "%%A")

Answer 5

When dealing with a lot of files, it can happen that the argument input to xargs is getting too long. I went for a more naive implementation which works in that case, too.

This is for Linux:

#! /bin/bash
# 1. get all statii in the working copy
# 2. filter out only missing files
# 3. cut off the status indicator (!) and only return filepaths
MISSING_PATHS=$(svn status $1 | grep -E '^!' | awk '{print $2}')
# iterate over filepaths
for MISSING_PATH in $MISSING_PATHS; do
    echo $MISSING_PATH
    svn rm --force "$MISSING_PATH"
done

Answer 6

svn st | grep ! | cut -d! -f2| sed 's/^ *//' | sed 's/^/"/g' | sed 's/$/"/g' | xargs svn rm

1. svn status
2. Filter only on missing files
3. Cut out exclamation point
4. Filter out trailing whitespaces
5. Add leading quote
6. Add trailing quote
7. svn remove each file