Ok, I was wrong. --cvs-exclude does not work but adding .svn/* to the exclude file alone does not work either. I’ve realized this important fact after uploading several (thousand?) svn-metadatafiles (whatever the correct term would be). Argh.
Further exploration revealed … nothing. I ‘came up’ with adding
.svn/*
.svn/
.svn
to all my exclude-files. Just to go for sure. It seems .svn/* does not catch all cases. So extending the list seems reasonable (at least with the current low-level knowledge). But…
How to get rid of those files?
As I said, I – accidentally – uploaded lots (thousands) of files. Lucky me I have a shell-account on my webserver. Being able to say I got a shell account.
always was cool. Not being able to use it heavily – lacking admin-level knowledge of Linux – should not be mentioned when boasting, though… 
What I wanted to say: I had to do some further research on how to delete lots of files, comfortably. I found find and did something like find -name '.svn' > out. Nifty. But how to get this into rm? rm like rm -rf to Read Mail Realy Fast
– but you propably know that one…
To make long stories short, find -name '.svn' | rm -r won’t work. Here is the solution I’ve finally used:
find www -name '.svn' | xargs rm -r
www is the name of my public html-directory (under which all these .svn got added). The command pipes the result from find (all the .svn-directories) into rm. The option -r convinces rm to recursively do its job (deleting files/directories). I found the pointer to that solution in /bin/rm: Argument list too long. Thanks.
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For the curious, the correct “find” command would look like this…
% find . -name “.svn” -type d -exec \rm -rf {} \;
Translated, find all the directories with the name “.svn” and then with each found directory run the rm command recursively to remove them. The xargs version works fine too.
I use tcsh as my shell, many people use bash and you may have to place a \ in front of each of the braces to get it to work properly.
It’s not so complicated…
Correct syntax:
rsync -rvv –filter=’- .svn/’ someone@yourhost:./remotedir localdest
or
rsync -rvv –filter=’- .svn/’ localdir someone@yourhost:./remotedest
Thanks to both of you for providing your solutions!
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