Remove file from SVN repository without deleting local copy
svn delete –keep-local the_file
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How do you move a file?
Check out section 5.14.2. Moving files and folders (or check out “move” in the Index of the help) of the TortoiseSVN help. You do a move via right-dragging. It also mentions that you need to commit from the parent folder to make it “one” revision. This works for doing the change in a working copy. … Read more
Subversion stuck due to “previous operation has not finished”?
There is often no need for a new checkout or copying. I have just solved a similar issue relating to the error “previous operation has not finished” with help from this (Link) It seems that svn sometimes gets stuck while processing commands/operations. All of these operations are stored in the database file wc.db in the … Read more
How do I move a file (or folder) from one folder to another in TortoiseSVN?
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
How to use TortoiseSVN via command line?
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
How to change users in TortoiseSVN
Open Windows Explorer. Right-click anywhere in the window. Click TortoiseSVN → Settings. Click Saved Data. Click Clear beside Authentication Data (see below). Check the authentication items to clear. Click OK. All saved Authentication Data for all projects is deleted. You will have to re-enter credentials to reconnect.
How to checkout a specific Subversion revision from the command line?
If you already have it checked out locally then you can cd to where it is checked out, then use this syntax: $ svn up -rXXXX ref: Checkout a specific revision from subversion from command line
TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7
Windows can only show a limited number of Overlay Icons (15 total, 11 after what Windows uses). Programs like Office Groove, Dropbox, Mozy, Carbonite, etc, will hijack a bunch of the 11 possible overlay icons (boy would it be nice if Microsoft upped the number of these as the number of applications that use them … Read more
Working copy XXX locked and cleanup failed in SVN
One approach would be to: Copy edited items to another location. Delete the folder containing the problem path. Update the containing folder through Subversion. Copy your files back or merge changes as needed. Commit Another option would be to delete the top level folder and check out again. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that though.