Comments on: Using tar to Snapshot a Subversion Working Directory

By: JD

JD — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:58:56 +0000

Sorry, thought that was for a “one time” removal.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:56:47 +0000

Kill the SVN directories prior to tar.

#!/bin/bash
cd YOURDIR; for i in `find . -name .svn`; do rm -rf $i; done; cd ..
tar -czf yourdir.tar.gz YOURDIR

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:33:37 +0000

Wow Mike, thanks for the tip – I’ll have to remember that next time I need to do a backup…

By: Mike Gent

Mike Gent — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:45:09 +0000

An even better solution is to use the same exclude file no matter what the repos layout is. Just include the directory with and without a trailing slash.

svnexclude.txt:
*/.svn */.svn/*

Command:
tar czvfX archive.tgz svnexclude.txt dir1/* dir2/*