The trunk is the main line of development in a SVN repository. A branch is a side-line of development created to make larger, experimental or disrupting work without annoying users of the trunk version. Also, branches can be used to create development lines for multiple versions of the same product, like having a place to … Read more
TortoiseSVN contains a console svn client, but by default the corresponding option is not enabled during installation. The svn.exe executable is not standalone and it depends on some other files1 in the distribution but this should not be a problem in most cases. Once installed you might need to add the folder containing svn.exe to … Read more
Metadata should not be managed in source control. They contain mostly data relevant to your workspace. The only exception is the .launch XML files (launcher definition). They are found in [eclipse-workspace]\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches And they should be copied into your project directory: When your project is refreshed, those configurations will be displayed in the “Run configuration” dialog. … Read more
To move a file or set of files using Tortoise SVN, right-click-and-drag the target files to their destination and release the right mouse button. The popup menu will have a SVN move versioned files here option. Note that the destination folder must have already been added to the repository for the SVN move versioned files … Read more
When starting all over is not an option… I deleted the log file in the .svn directory (I also deleted the offending file in .svn/props-base), did a cleanup, and resumed my update.
Also, if you are using TortoiseSVN, just export to the current working copy location and it will remove the .svn folders and files. http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-export.html#tsvn-dug-export-unversion Updated Answer for Subversion 1.7: In Subversion 1.7 the working copy has been revised extensively. There is only one .svn folder, located in the base of the working copy. If you … Read more
Most Subversion commands take the –username option to specify the username you want to use to the repository. Subversion remembers the last repository username and password used in each working copy, which means, among other things, that if you use svn checkout –username myuser you never need to specify the username again. As Kamil Kisiel … Read more
By default TortoiseSVN always has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) associated with it. But on the installer (of version 1.7 and later) you can select the “command line client tools” option so you can call svn commands (like svn commit and svn update) from the command line. Here’s a screenshot of the “command line client … Read more
Use: svn copy http://svn.example.com/project/trunk \ http://svn.example.com/project/tags/1.0 -m “Release 1.0” Shorthand: cd /path/to/project svn copy ^/trunk ^/tags/1.0 -m “Release 1.0”
Give the following command: svn resolved <filename or directory that gives trouble> (Thanks to @Jeremy Leipzig for this answer in a comment)