SVN command to delete all locally missing files

If you are using TortoiseSVN, just do a Check for Modifications, sort by the Status column, select all the entries marked missing, right-click to open the context menu, and select Delete. Finally, commit to publish the changes to the repository.

If you are on Windows, but prefer the command-line and enjoy dabbling in PowerShell, this one-liner will do the trick:

svn status | ? { $_ -match '^!\s+(.*)' } | % { svn rm $Matches[1] }

That is, filter the output to only those lines showing missing files (denoted by an exclamation at the start of the line), capture the associated file name, and perform an svn rm on that file name.

(Blog post Remove all “missing” files from a SVN working copy does something similar for Unix/Linux.)

If you're using Mac (Darwin) or Linux you can pipe the outputs of the following commands to svn rm for all missing files. You can set the current working directory to the appropriate directory or subdirectory before running these - dependent on whether you want to run this your entire working copy, or only a subset.

1. Run an svn status
2. Search for lines that begin with "!" (missing)
3. Print the "--force" (svn argument) and the second column (the file name) of the output from #2
4. Run svn rm using the output of #3 as arguments

So the full command is:

svn st | grep ^! | awk '{print " --force "$2}' | xargs svn rm

References:

• Examining fields (columns) with awk
• Using xargs to run shell commands with arguments