I mistakenly checked out several projects, but I only need 1 of them. How do I undo a checkout in tortoise SVN?
Simply deleting the local copies of the folders you mistakenly checked out should correct the issue. This will work if each project is in it's own directory.
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I am wondering what happens in SVN when a file is updated directly instead of using SVN? The main reason I am asking is that there was a problem updating the SVN on my machine (windows) when the server (linux) had 2 names that were the same, but different case. I resolved this on the server, but didn't do it through SVN since it won't update correct, but I still get the issue. Do I need to run some kind of command to update it?
Thanks.
EDIT:
I deleted the comflicting file in the working direcotry and wanted to know if doing things directory in the working directory get tracked at all or what needs to be done to resync.
When SVN gets blocked because the repository is more "up to date" than the local checkout, one brain dead foolproof solution is:
Move (or remove) the files that are causing the conflict at the command line (don't use SVN tools to do this, and don't use the GUI if you have tortoise installed).
svn update the repository, which will restore the current copy of the files from the subversion server.
Decide what to do with your cached copies of the old files. Either manually merge them back into the repository, discard them, or remake the changes in the new svn managed files (depending on your needs).
Note that if you move the files into a directory using tortoise, make sure that you move it into a directory that's not associated with ANY SVN project. It's not fun trying to undo the helpful changes tortoise does in thinking your wanting a SVN move to accompany the file system move.
There is no need to run any special commands. If you updated the sources, the next time you will run svn update subversion will seamlessly merge the changes and you will get an uptodate working copy.
If you changed some files, they will appear modified or conflicted depending on the changes made by you and other users.
I want to add my project to a subversion repository. The project folder contains a symlink to a folder containing thousands of txt files that I don't need to add to the svn repository. I DO want the symlink-folder to show up when I checkout the code, however.
It looks like I can use svn addprop svn:ignore symlinked-folder to ignore the folder, but then I'll have to add that symlinked folder to every working copy I check out before everything will work.
Is there a proper way to do this?
Perhaps there is no way to deal with this, since a symlink is a filesystem artifact. Is there a better way to handle this situation?
CONCLUSION - EDIT
After all this investigation, I committed the symlink-folder by accident and SVN added it to the repository without adding any of the files within it. Upon checkout, everything works fine. The symlink-folder checked out and works.
I am using assembla to manage my SVN repository, so that might have something to do with this success.
The answers above are right, your symlink won't work if you check out the repository on windows.
But if you're aware of that and you don't care, you can add just the symlink without its contents:
svn add -N your-symlink
man svn add here
I believe you are correct, imagine if a user checked out your repo under Windows - how would SVN create the symlink when the underlying OS doesn't support it?
Is the target folder that you are symlinking to under version control? If so, you can make use of the svn-externals property.
You are right, it doesn't make sense to add a symlink to a repository. What would happen if someone checked out the source on a machine that didn't have access to the folder the symlink points to?
One way is to structure your repository so that you can check out the codebase without having to check out documents. E.g.:
Trunk
Tags
Branches
Documents
So you only check out the trunk or branch that you are working on, and when you require it you can check out the documents.
Alternatively, use a project management tool like Redmine to store your docs. It can integrate with svn as well so you can view your repository and manage permissions through it.
This has been plaguing me for a week.
SVN keeps telling me that a certain file "does not exist in repository".
Fine. Let's just delete it. Forget about it. Ignore it. Whatever. I don't really care about this file (especially if it continues to fail the nightly check-in).
The most bizarre part? A "restore" will actually RESTORE the file from the repository, so its there (corrupted, maybe?).
...and this has to be the icing on the cake. If I delete the file through Windows Explorer, SVN will RESTORE the file from the repository, and right after that state that it doesn't exist in the repository. WTF?
Does anyone have a clue how to get rid of this?
I've already tried clean-ups, reversions, deletions and anything else imaginable, but this one has me stumped.
Thanks for any tips you might have...
It seems most likely that you have corrupted your local working copy, e.g. by moving folders or some other manipulation that you did with windows explorer but should have done through the TortoiseSVN context menu. The information inside the .svn folders now no longer matches the state of the working copy, which is confusing Subversion.
To fix this, delete the parent folder ("Originals") in your working copy with windows explorer (NOT with TortoiseSVN). Then do a TortoiseSVN "update" at the root of your working copy. This should restore the folder in working order.
Another option is to discard your working copy entirely and do a fresh checkout.
Note that the next release of Subversion (1.7) will reduce the opportunities for corrupting your working copy by centralizing all metadata in a single .svn folder at the root.
I've had similar problems with corrupted working copies. Sometimes the working copies have a lot of pending changes but unable to checkin. To resolve this, I use the following approach (svn 1.7+):
Checkout a fresh working copy into a new directory (path2)
In the fresh working copy, if the offending file is there, delete it if needed.
Commit the fresh working copy
In the fresh working copy, delete everything except the .svn directory
Copy everything from the old working copy except the .svn directory into the fresh working copy.
Commit the fresh working copy again
Delete (or backup) the old working copy
Rename the fresh working to the old working copy (path2 to path)
I had faced a similar problem wherein i had a folder, for example "FolderA" which consistently shows in svn update even though I had deleted it.
It would not even show in the folder list but svn would still recognise it as if it exists.
I followed below steps:
1.Create same folder name for which svn was giving error in the same file location
2.Added it to svn checkout. Since it gave conflict errors, i resolved it using the svn option to resolve.
3.Deleted the folder and committed my svn.
Error was resolved
I get repository where main folder is folder of solution. I want create folders trunk, branches, tags, etc. This repository is on Assembla.
I'm using windows 7 and newest SVN Tortoise. Is it some simple way to reconstruct this repository ?
I'm not quite sure I understand what you want, but why not make the folders and then move the rest of the files where they belong? Sure, it will mess with the history a bit (old deleted files won't show up in the new folders), but that's rarely a problem.
After I add and commit changes from my VS2008 solution folder, I have noticed that the the exclamation mark on all files and folders changes to a checkmark after the commit is completed to SVN repo, except for the file which is in the same folder as the folder. Even after I hit Refresh or perform SVN update and then Refresh, the exclamation mark stays. Is the problem between the chair and the keyboard or a known SVN issue. Please note that I am using Tortoise SVN 1.6.9 on Windows. Thanks in advance.
Firstly, you should notbe adding *.suo files to source control. It is bad practise, especially if you have multiple users working on the same project or solution. You should add all *.suo files to the SVN ignore list.
That said, the problem you describe is fairly common with Tortoise SVN and SVN in general, in my experience. Sometimes Tortoise SVN / SVN can get a bit confused, the .svn meta-data folders can get out of sync with the server copy, or even corrupted. To solve this problem, your working copy needs to be 'Cleaned up'.
Try the following:
Select the folder of your working copy in Windows Explorer, then
Right Click - Tortoise SVN - Clean Up.
If this doesn't work immediately, try multiple combinations of updating your working copy, then cleaning it, then updating again. This usually fixes the problem.
Read here and here for more.
The problem is also quite often with Windows/Windows Explorer itself. Refreshing of the SVN status icons doesn't always happen immediately. I believe it is a problem/limitation of the combination of Windows Explorer and the Tortoise SVN shell plugin.
Please do this
Directory ->Right Click->Check For Modifications -> On Modifications(select all)->Right click -> "Commit"-> In the bottom pane click "Refresh". Now it should have removed that warning sign.