#step 1: create a list of the svn content with svn -R list > filelist

#step 2 extract the file names aout of that list, supress directories
echo $1 
grep -v "/$" $1 > temp_filelist.txt
if [[ -s temp_filelist.txt ]] ; then
	echo "start the work..."
	# delete all files
	while read file; do echo "$file" ; rm  "$file"; done < temp_filelist.txt
	# delete all old .svn folders
	# first rescue the root .svn directory
	mv .svn svn-root
	find . -name ".svn" -exec  rm -rf {} \;
	# delete these silly thumbs.db
	find . -name "Thumbs.db" -exec  rm -rf {} \;
	# restore root svn
	mv svn-root .svn
	# finally remove all empty directories
	find . -empty -type d -delete

else
echo "no valid input file found"
fi ;