Re: Can't use "Update" to get new files

On 18.07.2013 03:21, Mark Hurcombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since upgrading to V1.8 (64-bit) I've found that the context menu that
> appears for any "new" files no longer has an "Update" option.
> Example...
>
> Right click on folder which is in repository and select Check for
> Modifications under Tortoise SVN
> Then click on Check Repository when the list of files appears.
> Assume that there are say a couple of new files in a sub-folder - in my
> case they are highlighted in black text and "remote text status" of
> modified, with the other status indicators (like Status) blank.
> Prior to V1.8 you could select the files and, right-click on the
> selection and one of the options in the context menu was Update. You
> could then click on Update to retrieve the new files from the
> repository, even if those files were included in a selection of other
> files. This no longer works in V1.8 in that there is no Update option
> nor any other obvious options to use to retrieve the files from the
> repository.
> I have found that you can click on the folder containing the files and
> do "Update", but this is not always desirable depending on the sate of
> your work. That is, there may be valid reasons for not wanting to update
> some files in the folder.

Works fine for me here.
At least if the folder where the new files are in is already in the
working copy.
However, if the folder is also new, then you can not update the files in
that new folder individually. You then have as you noticed to update the
new folder itself, which of course will also get all the files in that
new folder as well. But that's what has to be done, otherwise you would
end up with a sparse checkout, and that's most likely not what you want.
To avoid getting a sparse checkout accidentally in these situations, the
update command isn't shown.

But that's not a new behavior: that has been this way for a long time.

Stefan

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