Removing Thumbs.db from SVN/Local

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

I have searched my local trunk and found 52 Thumbs.db.

As there is only ever One Thumbs.db per directory, that is
52 locations where I need to delete them.

This is fine in Windows, I just delete them all in one go.

But how do I delete them all in one from SVN?
svn del -R Thumbs.db does not work, as there is not recursive
command for svn delete, how stupid is that!

Anyway, any ideas on the best way to do this, I am also sure that
not all 52 will be under version control anyway. In fact none should
be because I never explicitly added them, but anyway.

Gav...

RE: Removing Thumbs.db from SVN/Local

["Gav...." <br...@brightontown.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgardler@apache.org]
> Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 5:37 PM
> To: dev@forrest.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Removing Thumbs.db from SVN/Local
> 
> Gav.... wrote:
> > I have searched my local trunk and found 52 Thumbs.db.
> >
> > As there is only ever One Thumbs.db per directory, that is
> > 52 locations where I need to delete them.
> >
> > This is fine in Windows, I just delete them all in one go.
> >
> > But how do I delete them all in one from SVN?
> > svn del -R Thumbs.db does not work, as there is not recursive
> > command for svn delete, how stupid is that!
> >
> > Anyway, any ideas on the best way to do this, I am also sure that
> > not all 52 will be under version control anyway. In fact none should
> > be because I never explicitly added them, but anyway.
> 
> I know you are on windows, but you still need a decent command line.
> Donwload and install cygwin to get a bash shell then (the default config
> will give you everything you need to start with):
> 
> cd c:
> cd $FORREST_HOME
> find . -name "*.db" -exec svn del {} \;
> 
> Be very very careful, it's best to do
> 
> find . -name "*.db"
> 
> first to make sure the list is what you want it to be.
> 
> If you want to know what it does then do
> 
> man find
> 
> Ross

That worked fine, thanks Ross.

Gav...
> 
> [1] http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html

(Already had Cygwin, just don't use it much)

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Re: Removing Thumbs.db from SVN/Local

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Gav.... wrote:
> I have searched my local trunk and found 52 Thumbs.db.
> 
> As there is only ever One Thumbs.db per directory, that is
> 52 locations where I need to delete them.
> 
> This is fine in Windows, I just delete them all in one go.
> 
> But how do I delete them all in one from SVN?
> svn del -R Thumbs.db does not work, as there is not recursive
> command for svn delete, how stupid is that!
> 
> Anyway, any ideas on the best way to do this, I am also sure that
> not all 52 will be under version control anyway. In fact none should
> be because I never explicitly added them, but anyway.

I know you are on windows, but you still need a decent command line. 
Donwload and install cygwin to get a bash shell then (the default config 
will give you everything you need to start with):

cd c:
cd $FORREST_HOME
find . -name "*.db" -exec svn del {} \;

Be very very careful, it's best to do

find . -name "*.db"

first to make sure the list is what you want it to be.

If you want to know what it does then do

man find

Ross

[1] http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html

Re: Removing Thumbs.db from SVN/Local

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Gav.... wrote:
> I have searched my local trunk and found 52 Thumbs.db.
> 
> As there is only ever One Thumbs.db per directory, that is
> 52 locations where I need to delete them.
> 
> This is fine in Windows, I just delete them all in one go.

What a mess!

I just searched my Mac system amd found only 4:
plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.PhotoGallery/src/documentation/content/xdocs/images/gallery/demo/Thumbs.db
plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.input.PhotoGallery/src/documentation/content/xdocs/images/gallery/Thumbs.db
site-author/work/svn-deploy/forrest-docs/pluginDocs/plugins_0_80/org.apache.forrest.plugin.internal.dispatcher/skin/images/Thumbs.db
whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.themes.core/themes/pelt/images/Thumbs.db

So they would all be incorrectly under version control.

> But how do I delete them all in one from SVN?
> svn del -R Thumbs.db does not work, as there is not recursive
> command for svn delete, how stupid is that!

It might be deliberate. If it were so, then when using
the 'svn delete [URL]' method the committer could accidently
delete the whole repository.

> Anyway, any ideas on the best way to do this, I am also sure that
> not all 52 will be under version control anyway. In fact none should
> be because I never explicitly added them, but anyway.

Other committers did. Use e.g.
svn log whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.themes.core/themes/pelt/images/Thumbs.db
to see.

-David