Eclipse - Explorer - Removing all .svn folders

Submitted by Mi-K on Monday, July 11, 2011 - 8:59am

You maybe wondering how to remove .svn folders from your Eclipse explorer.
In this tutorial we will see how to hide .svn directories.

Open your Eclipse.
Click the project name in the explorer.
Right click it.
Then:

Properties > Resource > Resource Filters

Click the Add button on the right.

Select:

Exclude all
Folders and All children (recursive)

Then write in the input:

.svn

Click OK.
Click Apply.
Click OK.

That's all!

Comments

steve (not verified)

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 3:01am

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You can remove the .svn

Comment:

You can remove the .svn folders in your project by:

1. Open Terminal
2. cd "Your project path"
3. find . -type d -name .svn -depth -exec rm -rf {} \;

Mi-K

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 6:02pm

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Hello Steve,

Comment:

Hello Steve,

Yes thank you for your comment, to be honest the right title of this tutorial should have been "Hiding all .svn folders" because the aim was to keep the .svn folders on the hard drive.

With Eclipse you could just hide them.