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I'm about to do a commit in TortoiseSVN involving rearranging a lot of files and directories. On the "commit" window, there are several files whose text status is "deleted" or "added" but others whose text status is "deleted (+)" or "added (+)". What does the (+) mean?

(It's quite difficult to Google for a plus sign, and the word "plus" turns up lots of hits about the blue overlay icon meaning "added")

+1  A: 

Deleted(+) is used to indicate that the file isn't really gone, it's just been renamed, and there is an associated added(+) that represents the new file.

Mike Sherov
+4  A: 

The "+" means that TortoiseSVN was able to figure out the item's history, and has added the history metadata to this commit. For instance, say you rename a file from a to b. If you see the (+), Tortoise knows that you didn't really delete a file called a and make a file called b, and has determined that a rename took place.

That's good, because it means you can trace the history of b backwards to the point where it used to be a. Otherwise, you'd hit a dead end, and it would look like b sprang out of nowhere in the history. You can mouseover these entries and see more details about where they came from.

John Feminella
I don't see anything happening when I mouseover these files, but I can right-click on them and select "show logs" which does the same thing.
MatrixFrog