Detach a working copy from SVN or CVS

In order to detach a working copy of some code and get the clean structure, without the .svn (.cvs) folders you may use something like:

find . -name ".svn" | xargs rm -rf

The problem is that if any of the paths that are returned by find have a space in them, rm tosses everything up to the space.

In other words, if you have something like this:

/Documents/Projects/My Really Important Stuff/Project1

and "My Really Important Stuff" contains more than just Project1, you can kiss it all goodbye.

The much safer way is:

find . -name ".svn" | while read f; do rm -r "$f" ; done