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Re: Creating copies of project with full folder structure leads to misbehaviour when commiting

From: Dave Lawrence <dlawrence_at_ad-holdings.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:25:02 +0100

jwezel wrote:
>> If you add files, then they are unversioned until you "svn add" them.
> [...]
>> Therefore, your automated
>> process *will* have to be subversion aware if they want to do things
>> with subversion.
>
> Yes, this is the disadvantage of the current situation.
> That's why I asked for a support of the Tortoise SVN Explorer plugin
> doing all necessary cleanups in my folder structure. ;-)
- Check for modifications
- Click "show unversioned items"
- Select the items and click "add" from the context menu

Don't expect them to add a feature to automatically add files -
subversion simply doesn't make those sort of assumptions - it does
exactly what you tell it to.

BTW if you try and copy, rename or move folders inside your w/c (without
using svn commands) things will really get screwed because the hidden
.svn directories will get moved with them so you've effectively

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