status of SVN to Mercurial conversion tools

[Jens Alfke]

On 27 Aug '07, at 9:26 AM, Marcin Kasperski wrote:

>> Moreover hgsvn has the side affect of producing a svn working copy,
>> that I do not need.
>
> find . -name .svn | xargs rm -rf

Important safety tip: That's not going to work properly if any paths  
in the tree contain space characters, quotes, etc. (I happen to work  
on a project that has at least one directory name with a space in it.)  
This command could conceivably delete the wrong files — it was a  
mistake very much like this that infamously caused one version of the  
iTunes installer to delete a few people's entire disk partitions.

The safe way to do this is
	find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
or
	find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf '{}' ';'

--Jens