diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 100bb5da927..0623d79ba39 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3188,6 +3188,7 @@ Scripts/developer_scripts/check_library_uses_no_qpl_files.exceptions -text
 Scripts/developer_scripts/check_macro_names -text
 Scripts/developer_scripts/check_no_CGAL_USE_without_includes_before -text
 Scripts/developer_scripts/check_svn_keywords -text
+Scripts/developer_scripts/clean_up_branch.sh -text
 Scripts/developer_scripts/common_impl.rb -text
 Scripts/developer_scripts/create_assertions.sh eol=lf
 Scripts/developer_scripts/create_cgal_test -text
diff --git a/Scripts/developer_scripts/clean_up_branch.sh b/Scripts/developer_scripts/clean_up_branch.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6e0576b9740
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Scripts/developer_scripts/clean_up_branch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# usage: bash clean_up_branch.sh directory [rm]
+#
+#       lists all files that should be removed from a branch. 
+#       directory is the path to the repository.
+#       If additional rm option is passed, files will be deleted.
+#
+
+REPO_DIR=.
+DELETE=0
+
+if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then 
+  REPO_DIR=$1 
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e $REPO_DIR/.svn/entries ]; then
+  echo "$REPO_DIR is not a working copy"
+  exit
+fi;
+
+if [ $# -gt 1 -a "$2 == rm" ]; then
+  DELETE=1
+fi;
+
+echo Cleaning $REPO_DIR
+
+#define regular expression to match generated files
+REGEXP='ProgramOutput\.|CMakeFiles|CMakeLists.txt|\.moc$|CMakeCache\.txt|error\.txt|cmake_install\.cmake|Makefile|doc_html|doc_pdf|\.pdflg$|\.ilg$|\.cgallog$|\.blg$|\.bak$|\.hax$|\.aux$|\.maf$|demo.*\/qrc_.*\.cxx|demo.*\/ui_.*\.h'
+
+
+INITIAL=`svn status $1| awk '{if ($1 =="?" ) print $2 }'`
+
+
+#first get executable files
+EXECS=''
+DIRS=''
+KNOWN=''
+OTHER=''
+
+for i in $INITIAL; do 
+  if [ -x $REPO_DIR/$i  -a  ! -d $REPO_DIR/$i ]; then 
+    EXECS="$EXECS $i"
+  elif [[ "$i" =~ $REGEXP ]]; then
+    KNOWN="$KNOWN $i"
+  else
+    OTHER="$OTHER $i"
+  fi;
+done
+
+if [ "$EXECS" ]; then
+  echo "#Cleaning executables"
+  echo rm -rf $EXECS
+fi
+
+if [ "$KNOWN" ]; then
+  echo "#Cleaning known generated files"
+  echo rm -rf $KNOWN
+fi
+
+if [ "$OTHER" ]; then
+echo "#No predefined behavior"
+echo "# $OTHER"
+fi
+
+
+if [ $DELETE -eq 1 ]; then
+  if [ "$EXECS" -o "$KNOWN" ]; then
+    echo "Are you sure you want to execute the printed commands? [YES/NO]"
+    read ANSWER
+    if [ "$ANSWER == YES" ]; then
+      for i in $EXECS $KNOWN; do
+        rm -rf $REPO_DIR/$i
+      done
+    fi
+  else
+    echo "Nothing to do"
+  fi
+fi
+