How to remove untracked files in SVN
svn, version-control
Solution
There may be a built-in way, but if so, I don't know of it. However, something like the following should do the job:
svn st | grep '^?' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -rf
(All unversioned files should appear in a line beginning with `?` in an `svn st`.)
EDIT (@GearoidMurphy) It's challenging to get this snippet to work on a cygwin environment, as xargs treats the windows path slashes as escape sequences and has trouble parsing the '\r\n' line endings, below is my adapted solution of this perfectly valid answer:
svn st | grep '^?' | gawk '{printf(\"%s|\", $2)}' | xargs -d "|" -n1 C:\cygwin\bin\rm -r
Problem
How can I remove all untracked files from an SVN checkout with the `svn` command line tool? Git and Hg offer `clean` and `purge` commands for this purpose, but I can't find the corresponding command in SVN. I don't care if I have to revert all my local modifications in the process (in which case I'd essentially want to restore my checkout to a pristine state) or whether local modifications to tracked files can remain intact; either situation is acceptable.