Ever since, TortoiseSVN had support for ‘_svn’ folders. This problem was fixed in Visual Studio 2005, but the folders stayed. I found this to be a problem when I started using Ruby because svn client itself doesn’t play well with ‘_svn’ folders.

To help with the problem I wrote a little Ruby script which simply goes through every folder starting from your current one and renames every ‘_svn’ to ‘.svn’.

First, if you don’t already have, install Rio gem, which is a wonderful IO library.

gem install rio

Then open and drop svnrename.bat into your \Rails\bin folder. Then open cmd prompt and go to your desired folder, type svnrename and you are done.

Here’s what the file looks like:

"%~d0%~p0ruby" -x "%~f0" %*
goto endofruby
#!/bin/ruby

require 'rio'

dir = ARGV[0]
dir = '.' if dir.nil?
count = 0

rio('.').all.rename.dirs('_svn') do |d|
	count += 1
	puts d
	d.basename = '.svn'
end

puts "Nothing found" if count == 0

__END__
:endofruby

This was one of my very first Ruby utilities. So…