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remove ignored files in bulk

Asked by ricosuave

Hi All,

We have been having some problems using Bazaar for a big .NET solution. We've been experimenting with what filetypes we shoud include in versioning and which ones we should exclude (if someone has info on this for Visual Studio filetypes, it's very welcome).

Anyway, I think we're pretty close now, but the problem we're running into is that when we decide to exclude/ignore a specific type (say, .xsd, for example) and one of the developers has already committed a revision with one or more .xsd files in it, bazaar will NOT ignore the already versioned .xsd files (which is by design).

The solution is to issue a "bzr rm" on the versioned files in question, but these (already versioned) files can be spread across numerous directories. I'm wondering if it is possible to say to bazaar "remove all .xsd files from bazaar that are currently versioned." Or even "remove all files from Bazaar that are currently ignored".

Is there a command or a GUI function that can do such a bulk operation?

Thanks,

Erik

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Best John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#1

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On 04/13/2011 01:43 PM, ricosuave wrote:
> New question #152661 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/152661
>
> Hi All,
>
> We have been having some problems using Bazaar for a big .NET solution. We've been experimenting with what filetypes we shoud include in versioning and which ones we should exclude (if someone has info on this for Visual Studio filetypes, it's very welcome).
>
> Anyway, I think we're pretty close now, but the problem we're running into is that when we decide to exclude/ignore a specific type (say, .xsd, for example) and one of the developers has already committed a revision with one or more .xsd files in it, bazaar will NOT ignore the already versioned .xsd files (which is by design).
>
> The solution is to issue a "bzr rm" on the versioned files in question, but these (already versioned) files can be spread across numerous directories. I'm wondering if it is possible to say to bazaar "remove all .xsd files from bazaar that are currently versioned." Or even "remove all files from Bazaar that are currently ignored".
>
> Is there a command or a GUI function that can do such a bulk operation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik
>

find . -name '*.xsd' | xargs bzr rm

Or

bzr rm *.xsd */*.xsd */*/*.xsd */*/*/*.xsd

etc.

I realize this isn't optimal, but it shouldn't be particularly hard to do.

John
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ricosuave (posted-precompiled) said : 		#2

Thanks John A Meinel, that solved my question.