Svn question: Moving all .svn directories from a project directory

Question

I am wondering if there is a way to configure Tortoise SVN to save .svn folders in a directory of your choice, and not in the directory of the files to which they refer. The problem is that in many cases these files are included in assemblies, copies, and other activities related to developing an ASP.NET application.

Answer 1

A typical solution to this problem is to use an automated assembly process to create an official assembly from the original working copies and to exclude these folders from official assemblies. You will also want to include other source files, project files, and everything else that is part of your working copy of development, but not needed in the deployment.

You will also want to change the debug flag in your Web.config. And you will want to create and run unit tests. And you can run fxcop / stylecop. And there may be other things. Auto build is very useful. This seems like a lot of work if all you initially want to do is delete the .svn folders, but in the end you will find there much more that you want to do than just that, and automation is worth it.

TeamCity is an excellent commercial product with a free version for supporting automated assemblies. Cruise Control.NET also works fine.

http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET

Answer 2

1) None. This is svn design.

2) But, if you want to check the project, say, for nightly builds and cases when you do not need version information. Then you should use the "svn export" command. The difference between validation and export is that export loads the directory from the server without all .svn folders.