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Re: [TSVN] detecting a shell copied/moved subtree

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2005-06-20 18:24:33 CEST

Hiroharu Tamaru wrote:

> I'm not sure how I call the issue, but for the moment, I'll
> call it deteing a shell copied/moved subtree.
> Could you please take a look at the following transaction:
[snip]
> In step 4, I mistakingly renamed the directory a/ to x/
> using a shell command and not the subversion way. But then,
> using status command on the command-line client, it always
> tells me that x/ is a result of such a failure, even though
> there still is a .svn/ directory inside x/ .
>
> Is there a way in TortoiseSVN to detect this in a similar way?

Yes.

> With TortoiseSVN, x/ even has a green checkmark overlay (I
> understand why, so don't tell me :-p ), so it is diffcult to
> notice it in the first place.
>
> Running "Check for Modifications" will not show x/ as
> non-versioned (as opposed to the case for the status command
> in command-line client).

But it tells you that 'a' is missing. That's how you can spot that you
did something wrong.

Stefan

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