Simple AIR tool to recursively delete .svn folders

Subversion is probably the best versioning and source control software out there. While you're working with a Subversion client (like Tortoise SVN, Subclipse or whatever), little hidden folders named ".svn" are being created and maintained in every single folder of your project. Needless to say that in projects with tons and tons of package folders, you end up with a whole lot of .svn folders.

Anyway, in some cases you might want to have all that meta data removed from your project. I won't go into possible reasons why you might want to do this and neither am I going to dive into the fact that generally it's advisable not to start messing around in those meta data folders... Other people can explain this way better than me (which most people do.... about most things ).

Cleaning all those folders manually may be a very long and tedious job. You can write a shell script to get the job done or use this overly simple AIR application (which I gave the funny name "SubSweep"). If you don't trust the thingy, check out the source code first (you see, no worries ).

Please note that in Subclipse there's an option to export your project without the meta data folders. And you can remove the svn folders from a local version of your project with Subclipse by chosing Team > Disconnect.