[Yanel-dev] tool to remove unknown files from a Subversion working copy (to help continuous integration)

[Guillaume Déflache]

Hi all!

Michi and I spoke about this and how it could be handy as an interim 
solution to cleanup the Hudson working copies after the tests, which may 
well slow the server because of neverending directory growth (assuming 
we still use ext2) as explained below.

The tool is called svn-clean and is notably in 
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/admin/subversion-tools (starting from 
Feisty). I haven't tested it yet so YMMV.

Of course we should also cleanup after ourselves, or at least not 
generate new files and directories each time some tests are run (those 
who use unique IDs in filenames and/or paths), as this clutters 
developers' working copies all the same.

Cheers,
    Guillaume