I decided to write a small application due to a recent annoyance I had with SVN. To say the least, I sometimes found myself wanting clear out a whole directory tree of all *.svn folders. Now there are little windows applications that exist to do such that and in Linux, there are some quick shell commands that can recursively remove all the .svn folders, but I couldn’t find one that makes easy access through Windows Explorer Context Menu.

So rather than download and execute separate program to clear a directory of all *.svn files, I wanted to add an option to the Windows Explorer Context Menu. So I wrote a little .NET Console Application that takes in an argument of the parent directory, and I made an NSIS installer (and uninstaller), to add the appropriate menu item to the Context Menu.

You can read about it and download it here: SVN Cleaner

Screenshot of the program being executed from the Context Menu:

Hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you think!

Thanks