Trouble deleting .svn folders in Vista

Question

I do a search on .svn using Explorer in my project directory and they come up fine. But when I try to highlight all the .svn folders in my search results it appears that they are deleted by the dialog but they're stil there. I can't get rid of them!

Answer 1

You can drag the versioned folder to the destination folder using the right mouse button and when your mouse pointer is over the desired drop location let the button go and select the "SVN export all items here" option from the context menu that pops up. This should copy over both the versioned and unversioned files without the .svn directory. I hope its not some additional application that I installed that gives me this option but maybe you should try it.

Answer 2

Why do you want to delete the .svn folders in a working copy?

If you want a "clean" copy of any given tree version, you can easily use SVN Export (available from the Tortoise SVN menu).

Answer 3

Try doing it from the cmd line

I think...

del /F /S *.svn.