Can information about git/svn checkout and other usefull info be accessed from the generated files?
<p>First let me explain why I need this question answered, so you can better understand my problem.</p>

<p>I am trying to make easy backup of folders that contain source files, and backup only the essential files. One of the steps that I need to do for this is remove the .svn/.git/etc. folders, because they contain a lot of files.</p>

<p>But I do want to keep the information about the checkout server, for example.</p>

<p>Is there any way to parse those files in order to retrieve this information? And if so, what do I have to look for?</p>