How to remove all .svn directories from my application directories

Question

One of the missions of an export tool I have in my application, is to clean all .svn directories from my application directory tree. I am looking for a recursiv

Answer 1

No need for pipes, xargs, exec, or anything:

find . -name .svn -delete

Edit: Just kidding, evidently -delete calls unlinkat() under the hood, so it behaves like unlink or rmdir and will refuse to operate on directories containing files.