Status "S" in Subversion

Question

At some point all files in my working copy got marked with "S" symbol as shown below:

$ svn st
M    S   AclController.php
     S   InstallationController.php
     S   CustomerController.php
     S   RedirController.php
     S   IndexController.php
     S   LoginController.php
     S   OrderController.php
     S   ProductController.php
     S   SelfInstallController.php
     S   SelfcareController.php

Interestingly it occurs only int this particular working copy - when I checkout the project to new directory, it does not show the "S" marks.

How to get rid of this annoying "S" symbols? It significantly decreases clarity of WC status.

Update: I do switch from time to time using standard svn switch syntax. It was never causing this "S" symbol to appear until recently. The command used to switch was:

svn switch svn+ssh://xxxxxx/subversion/xxxxxxx/releases/1.0.16 .

Is there any way I can clear the "S" flag?

Answer 1

"Item is switched."

If you used "svn switch" on your working copy that might explain it?

Answer 2

This means that you've switched from one working copy to another, for example you've checked out a working copy, then swapped it over to be comparing against a code branch. Take a look at the SVN book for details on how to undo this.

Answer 3

It means that the files are from a different location in your subversion repository than the directory containing them. The solution is to switch the entire working copy to the same location. See the two sections in the subversion book for details on how to invoke the command.

Answer 4

If you call 'svn info' on the directory itself and on (one of) the files inside you will get two different URLs.

You get the 'S' status if the url of a file/directory does not match the URL of the parent followed by the name of the file.

Can you post the url of the parent and one of the child nodes? (anonymizing the URL where appropriate)

Answer 5

I had this problem with a directory I successfully committed to SVN. The solution for me was to erase it locally then update. I couldn't see any differences, but the .svn file was fixed for whatever reason (no more S).