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garci86
garci86

Reputation: 67

Hudson Job creates .svn files

When I make a SVN Repository checkout .svn files are created on the workspace. I have checked that these files don't exist in the repository and are created when the Hudson Job makes the checkout.

What are the .svn files? Can I remove them or avoid their creation?

Regards.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 796

Answers (2)

krampstudio
krampstudio

Reputation: 3621

Those folders are created by the svn client, to keep track of your files. With subversion prior to 1.7 there is one .svn folder by folder, after there is only one on the root.

The .svn are necessary to update/commit. If your job don't need to update the working copy, you can use export instead of checkout and you will get a new copy at each build without the .svn folder, but you will not be able to update, only to remove and export again.

Upvotes: 2

Grzegorz Żur
Grzegorz Żur

Reputation: 49181

.svn files are internal files of Subversion. All subversion meta data is in this directories.

In case of Hudson Job, they are irrelevant as you do not want to commit anything. You cannot avoid crating them. You can remove them but you will find them helpful when you will start using update instead of checkout on Hudson to speed up build.

Upvotes: 1

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