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Re: Wrong icon after folder rename

From: Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:32:31 +0100

Am 13.03.2009 19:58, Simon Large schrieb:
> 2009/3/13 Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis_at_gmx.de>:
>
>> Am 13.03.2009 15:16, Stefan Küng schrieb:
>>
>>> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have renamed folder by Windows Explorer's normal Rename command. The
>>>> TSVN-Icon remained green. Release 1.5.9.
>>>> I didn't commit the rename to repository.
>>>>
>>>> After re-renamed to name before, All was,as nothing had happened at all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's the correct behavior. By simply renaming the folder (without
>>> using svn) you have created a 'nested layout', i.e. the renamed folder
>>> behaves as a separate working copy. That's why the overlay doesn't change.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> OK, can this behavior configured by user? I more like the Windows
>> Explorer's functions behaving same as renaming files, e.g. the renamed
>> folder should result as unversioned.
>>
>
> No. If you do things behind subversions back, how does it know what
> you really intended? Any version control system which tried to guess
> would be a very poor system.
>

Thanks, I think, I've got the point.
I could export the folder to a new named, and after delete the original.

-Ulf

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