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Re: Working copy data loss on undo add

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:28:31 +0100

On 02.02.2012 15:52, Simon Large wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I bumped into this one before but forgot to report it.
>
> I svn copy and rename a file to make a variant and start editing it. I
> decide I am going to do things a bit differently and TSVN->Undo Add.
> This reverts the svn copy and discards the file, which is not what I
> expected since I had edited it after making the copy.
>
> What I expect Undo Add to do is:
> Added unversioned file: Revert, but keep my original file as unversioned
> Added file with history (unmodified): Revert, deleting the copied file

Already works this way.

> Added file with history (modified): Revert, keeping the modified file
> as unversioned

Not exactly: revert means also reverting local modifications.
But: TSVN moves the reverted file to the trash bin so you *can* recover
it if you really want to.

Stefan

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