I had a functional version of code which I was trying to commit to my local branch,
However, previously I tried to make some changes that were not accepted on that branch. So I reverted back to a previous commit.
So I was working out of a commit that was 2nd to last in the branch
Then I made some more changes, tested the program, and tried to commit again,
Then tortoise svn forced me to update, I assumed it was updating the files for the current revision I was on. But no, unfortunately, it Updated the files to the Latest commit, which I did not want, then it tried to merge my changes on top of that, so I had changes that I wanted on top of changes that I didn't want merged together!
Can I undo this and keep my changes that I just made that I wanted to commit? What did I forget to do, was I supposed to stash all of the newer commits?
Right click on file you will have option replace with choose the local history. Select the local version you want to keep.
Its done. You are good to go :)
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Is there a way to undo/delete the last commit in TFS. I don't want to rollback because as far as I'm aware this creates a new changeset that does the inverse..
Ideally I need the equivalent of a git reset so the changeset is trashed but my changes are preserved locally..
Is this possible in TFS?
Nope, there is no way to undo a changeset except for rollback which is a new changeset by itself.
A changeset is a permanent part of the history of your version-controlled items and cannot be undone or removed.
MSDN LINK
Nope, the change cannot be cancel.
However (if it is not a binary file) you could set the file content back.
You could copy text of the previous version from file comparison feature in TFS.
To do it, go to commit you want to revert, then open the file you want to revert back.
Then paste it to the same file in local, then push it to your repo.
You could undo change to the local file after committing.
Hope that could help.
I've checked out a copy of the SVN branch (my branch) locally to which I've merged from a different branch (which has a completely different folder structure). So basically there are a lot of deletions (of old files) and additions (of new files).
When I try to commit the merge to the repository (to my branch), Tortoise says
This commit is not recursive, and there are moved/renamed folders selected for commit. Such moves/renames are always performed recursively in the repository. Do you want to commit anyway?
Is it fine to proceed with this commit? If not, what should I do so that there's no problem?
Also, for some files that I've added, I've made changes after adding (if this affects the nature).
Found by Google how to fix it: press F5 in the commit window (not in the "warning popup")
See http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=757&dsMessageId=2831045 for details.
On 26.08.2011 22:39, Ryan J Ollos wrote:
For several months now I've been seeing the following dialog box appear when
initiating Commit. It frequently happens when attempting to commit following
a merge.
The thing I have noticed lately however is that if I Cancel and then
manually refresh the file list (F5), I don't see the message again when
initiating the commit a second time. The commit seems to succeed fine and
with no further problems.
The commit dialog monitors the working copy in a background thread for
change notifications. Such notifications are sent by the OS in case
files are modified/moved/renamed/...
If such a notification is received, the commit dialog first does a few
checks so it can drop most of them. If the notification indicates that a
file that is not checked and not visible in the commit dialog has
somehow changed, it switches back to non-recursive committing.
That's because if you have e.g. a file open in another editor and save
your changes while the commit dialog is open, then that file would get
committed as well even though you haven't checked it in the commit
dialog (it doesn't show up until you refresh the dialog with F5).
So if you see that warning dialog often, please check if there's another
tool/app running which modifies files in your working copy.
And as you noticed: if you hit F5, that 'non-recursive flag' is reset
because after a refresh, you see all the files again - even the ones you
modified after you started the dialog.
Stefan
I had the same issue but resolved it by reverting changes to files that I had marked to 'ignore-on-commit'
Once I reverted these files, then tortoisesvn was able to commit all the other files from the merge
Is it fine if i proceed with this commit?
No, your commit will ignore all changes in WC-tree and reflect only root-level changes (broken merge).
You made an error when checking out non-recursive initially. You can try to perform good, full commit using --depth infinity parameter in the CLI or find this switch in TortoiseSVN GUI.
svn commit --depth infinity . -m "Merge"
Also for some files that I've SVN-added , I've made changes after adding (If this affects the nature).
In my case that was exactly what caused the message to appear, even I unselected those files for the commit.
Ugly solution which only works safely if just a few files are affected:
Create a copy of the changed files
Revert the changed files
Commit the merge/reintegration
Copy the changed files back to the original place
Reminder to self: only reintegrate a branch if the target (trunk) is clean.
I just had the same issue. Instead of selecting all the files, I clicked on versioned and everything worked well. In my case, the option versioned selected all the files, so everything is ok now.
It looks like TortoiseSVN performs some kind of validity checking before calling commit. Good but the error message is very unclear.
When I faced this issue, I went back to using the svn command line to commit. Commit failed due to the reason that one of the folders was not up to date. After updating just that folder, I ran "svn commit" once again and it went through.
Edit: PS: Before you use try this out, make sure you do not have any files marked as "ignore on commit". "Ignore on commit" is tortoise specific and SVN commit picks these changes as well.
Just thought I'd post this because it worked for me...
The reason this happened is because I'd partially renamed one of the new projects I'd created and for some reason they all showed up as "Missing" on the commit screen.
After I removed the project and folder (which SVN had put a tick on) and put it back in as a new project again, suddenly all of the "Missing" had turned into "Added" and the commit ran fine without warning me of anything.
Hope this helps!
I saw this issue and the cause was a few added files not having the added status for no apparent reason. They were 'normal' even though the parent folder correctly showed as 'added'. I reverted those 'normal' changes and then manually re-did them. This made each added item show up twice in the commit list but it resolved the error and everything appears to be in working order now.
It didn't have anything to do with ignore-on-commit as in another answer, it just seemed like a bug in TortoiseSVN.
The problem could be, that your mergeinfo is deleted by someone or automatically, because the infos moved up in the tree. If you are gonna merge them in again, it will work for the moment. But all others will get problems with their not merged branches. SVN will loose some code and merge already submitted code again.
So reverting those files and changing them again could work, but you should not just commit the changes.
i don't know a option for tortoisesvn but u could use the command line
svn commit --non-recursive [folder]
thats sould work just as u like it to work
greeings
we cut branch from Trunk. Changes are done on both trees and committed. Now we want to merge branch to trunk with all the revision history from both. Is it possible?
Is manual merge is different from tortoise SVN merge say i have to do 3-4 files?
"Means i manually check the changes then do it on trunk and commit the trunk."
I earlier put a question regarding it but still confused.
Experts comment only.
Thx
You should be able to merge from your branch to trunk by simply right clicking on the target branch and selecting merge. Typically, a reintegrate merge will merge all changes from a branch back into the target branch. I have had failures with that in the past based on the version of svn, how merges have been done in the past, etc. At that point, I simply would do a 'Merge revision range' without specifying a revision. It then picked up the appropriate ranges to merge and successfully pulled those over to trunk.
Once the merge is done, you must commit the merges. Simply put, the merge operation completes on your local working copy. You will then have to commit the changes to your working copy in order for others to pick it up. I recommend doing merges on clean copies of branches/targets (meaning you have no outstanding changes on either branch). Also, make sure you commit any property changes as well.
Lastly, if you just want to merge a specific change, you can specify the revision in which the change was made instead of doing a full merge/reintegration.
I'm using TortoiseSVN without an external Subversion server to manage LabView source (i.e. a large collection of ever-changing binary files).
I'd like to have a "beta" branch of the repository that anyone can subscribe to and get daily updates. I guess this is different from a usual beta release series with separate branches, but it's right for this project.
What is the best/easiest way to copy the contents of a particular revision of the trunk branch over to the beta branch? Essentially what I want to do is delete the old contents of beta and insert new contents. Delete+add would work, I suppose, but it's clearly suboptimal. Merge is not an option unless I can get Tortoise to automatically resolve all conflicts in the trunk's favor, including deleting files.
Update: a couple people have asked why I don't want delete+add. I'd like a cleaner alternative.
This method leads to half the updates to the beta tree being "wipe out last rev."
The updates are not atomic so someone could pick up an empty release.
I haven't tried and seen, but beta wouldn't be a proper branch. Would the revision log even track multiple revisions at all, since it's a "new" file each time?
Update 2: svn allows any arbitrary commands before a commit, but I couldn't get Tortoise to work this way. After selecting "Delete," stub directories were still left over until I committed, at which point I could repopulate the branch. There needs to be a way to unmark a directory for deletion when it exists in both the old and new tag revisions.
Merge is not an option unless I can
get Tortoise to automatically resolve
all conflicts in the trunk's favor,
including deleting files.
I don't know about TortoiseSVN, but if you install the command line client you could do the following to merge the latest trunk changes to a beta branch:
cd c:/path/to/my/working/copy/of/beta/branch
svn merge file:///c:/path/to/my/repository/trunk --accept theirs-full
svn commit -m "merged latest trunk changes to beta branch"
The --accept theirs-full option resolves all conflicts by using the trunk's version like you want.
This has some advantages: subversion will do representation sharing, so files stored on both branches will not take extra space in the repository. Also, when users update their beta working copy, only the files that were changed need to be pulled over the wire.
SVN is transactional - a delete and copy (not add!) would not be problematic. And beta would be a proper branch (or better a tag)
Why not delete beta/* and then copy trunk/* to beta/ ?
Using TortoiseSVN, I need to take changes I've done in a branch and then merge them with trunk.
I am the only developer on this project, so I know trunk hasn't changed. I am learning SVN so that eventually my team can use it.
Basically, I want my trunk to look exactly like the branch.
In pre-svn world, I would just copy the files in my branch folder, delete the files in the trunk folder, and then copy branch into trunk.
In TortoiseSVN, I've tried Reintegrate a branch, Merge a range of revisions, and Merge two different trees. Nothing seems to actually change trunk. I've also tried branching on top of the trunk. This gives me an error, saying that the trunk already exists.
In your case:
Switch the working copy to the trunk (SVN Switch)
Merge the branch into the working copy (SVN Merge)
Make sure everything still compiles and works
Commit the working copy (the trunk)
Consider killing the branch
In a team environment I would suggest that you first merge the latest modifications from the trunk in your branch, make sure that everything compiles and works, then do the above steps (which will be trivial since you've already tested the changes).
Update
In step 5, I mention killing the branch. That's because once a branch from a feature is in the trunk, it should be considered as part of the trunk. In that case the branch should be killed so that no one keeps working on it. If major modifications are needed for that feature, you should create a new branch for that.
The only branches that I don't kill are maintenance and release branches, unless a particular release is no longer supported.
No matter what, you always have access to every revision so killing a branch is only used to prevent other developers from developing on a dead branch.
I think in TortoiseSVN 1.8.5, Merge | Merge two different trees should work. When you merge a branch/tag back to trunk, the trick is that the From URL is the trunk and the To is the tag/branch. Weird but true.
Source: Merging
For directories that not in your working copy but are in the tag/branch you may get conflict errors. Just accept the conflict and redo the merge.
First switch your working copy to the trunk.
Then do a merge range of revisions, from the branch to trunk.
Once this dialog is complete the differences will be pending changes in your working copy of trunk. You'll need to commit them just as if you manually made the changes on your working copy.
In my usage, its more typical to keep trunk running and spin branches off at the times of builds. So then the only merge I ever need to do is to get a bug fix out of trunk and put it on the latest build branch and re-release that branch. The easiest way for me to do this, since as you have found merging is clumsy at best. Is to keep the latest branch and the trunk checked out to my machine, and to quite literally copy the files from trunk to branch and check both in.
I am using TortoiseSVN 1.9.3, Build 27038.
Follow below steps in order to merge branch into trunk.
1) Right click on trunk working copy and select the below option.
2) In case of Branch Merging into trunk select option second as shown below and click next
3) In the From: field enter the full folder URL of the trunk. This may sound wrong, but remember that the trunk is the start point to which you want to add the branch changes.
In the To: field enter the full folder URL of the feature branch.
4) Click next and do the test merge
5) If test merge is successful then click on Merge button.
6) Once merge is successful then commit the changes on trunk.