Thanks that did it. I had thought it might have had something to do with
peg revisions, but was unsure how to escape the syntax.
On 3/9/2011 6:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 18:11, Michael Diers wrote:
>> On 2011-03-09 21:22, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
>>> I am trying the following.
>>> svn ren "48_at_20hrs.jpg" "48 hrs.jpg"
>>>
>>> I get the following message
>>> svn: '48' is not under version control
>>>
>>> I would like to automate the task of renaming ~100 files. I was able to
>>> use TortoiseSVN to do a single file manually, but am not sure how to get
>>> this to work from the command line.
>>>
>>> Please help :)
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>> Stephen,
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>> what command line interpreter (shell) are you using?
>>
>> The files to be renamed must be referred to with a trailing "@",
>> like so:
>>
>> svn ren "48_at_20hrs.jpg@" "48 hrs.jpg"
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> And just to explain why: This is because Subversion reserves a special use for the @ character: specifying a peg revision number. (Peg and operative revisions are explained in the book at http://svnbook.org ) Subversion takes "48" as the filename and "20hrs.jpg" as the peg revision, and isn't smart enough to realize that that's not a valid revision number and just tries to use it as one anyway; to avoid that, you add the extra "@" at the end, which will end up using the correct filename "48@20hrs.jpg" and a revision number "" (the empty string), which is fine.
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