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Open Visual Studio project as readonly

Scenario: I'm using svn:externals to grab Microsoft.Practices.ServiceLocation from CodePlex. However, referencing the csproj-file in my own project causes an upgrade from 2005 to 2008. This makes my copy of the project file different from the base copy, and I am unable to update the project from subversion. An update of ...\deps\Micro...

Cant delete a local copy of SVN

When I try to delete a few leftover artifacts of a SVN repository locally in order to delete the whole repository, it is not possible because I get: "cannot delete(file in .SVN directory) the file name you specified is not valid or too long" But when I go to look at the file and delete it individually its like the file doesn't truly...

What is the simplest way to do branching and merging using Tortoise SVN?

I have not found a really simple "how to" any where so I came up with my own through trial and error and wanted to share it, i.e. I will answer this question myself. ...

How to have Subversion store an empty directory

I am trying to have a folder be checked in, so that when I export from SVN it gets created as part of the exported file hierarchy, so that it will be there for an app (beyond my control) to dump files into. However, I never want its contents to be checked in. How do I have SVN 'track' the folder but ignore its contents? I'm using Tort...

Local PC Hosted or Remote SVN

Hi Guys, Currently I and two two friends are working on a small project. We are currently hosting the SVN ourselves. My question specifically relates to whether we should 1) Move to a private hosted solution - unfuddle or github 2) Continue hosting locally I guess our main concerns are 1) Security of connection 2) Privacy 3) Pr...

svn:ignore for subdirectories in subclipse/TortoiseSVN

How do I ignore an entire subtree based on a directory pattern globally, without specifically excluding it for every project? For an example, I would like to exclude the target/ tree in all Maven projects without having to do so individually on a per-project basis. Adding 'target' to Window > Preferences > Team > Ignored Resources works...

Visual Studio 2008 publishing .svn folders

Does anyone know how to prevent VS copying the .svn folders associated with subversion when publishing a web project? I'm using Tortoise SVN and Ankh svn VS plugin. Thanks ...

TortoiseSVN and Putty problems

Hi - here is the situation: successfully installed svnserver on a NAS drive accessible by LAN using this tutorial: http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Step-by-step%5Fguide%5Fto%5Finstalling%5FSubversion%5Fon%5FARM-based%5FSynology%5FProducts The svn base directory is called svn, and the repo (dummy-name: repo_name) is inside svn....

Tortoise svn version for server version 1.5.5

Which version of tortoise svn should I be using? My server version is 1.5.5 My svn commandline client version is also 1.5.5 ...

SVN externals broken after relocation

So we recently moved our SVN server from being a root path (svn://sever/) to being a subfolder (svn://server/sub/) to allow multiple repositories on the same server. We have a number of working copies already checked out that we'd like to just keep as-is. Using Tortoise SVN, we ran the Relocate command, and everything seemed to work gr...

Help me understand Svn merge

I don't understand svn merge. Here's the scenario: We have a branch that contains the latest stable copy of our code. I will refer to this branch as 'the branch'. There's also a trunk branch which contains a few new additions, but we don't want to mess with that at this point. We have a vendor branch which contains an updated version o...

svn can't connect to host 'localhost'

hello, I started two days ago to set up a svn environment on my local machine (win). i installed subversion + tortoise svn two days ago, and created the first test project. opening the link svn://localhost in my browser showed the Repository Browser with my test project having the folders tags, branches and trunk inside (which was great...

Can Subversion be configured for Windows Authentication without Apache

I've setup Subversion following Jeff Atwood's article at Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows. I followed the steps exactly and I have SVNSERVE now running as a service on a Windows 2003 server in our LAN. I've also installed TortoiseSVN and I've been playing with it and trying to learn more about it so I can spread the usag...

TortoiseSVN file overlay performance - are there any ways of improving it?

Hi all, I'm using TortoiseSVN on my development machine (running Windows Server 2003) and VisualSVN Server on the server side. Both are the latest versions (against Subversion 1.6.5). Everything works well generally; however I'm getting a little frustrated with the TortoiseSVN file overlays (the little icons that show locked or modifie...

After moving SVN-backed files : detecting errors

I know how to move a directory locally in Windows Explorer, so that it gets moved in SVN also after it is commited with TortoiseSVN : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46080/how-do-you-move-a-file-in-svn/46100#46100 Use right-drag -> move Now my problem is that one may forget to do that, and move the directory directly : on my machin...

tips/techniques/bestpractice for resolving conflicts with svn

For quite a long time , i have been working with tortoise SVN, when i took the latest from the repository (after many days), to my goodness i found out many files were in the conflicted state. It takes a lot of time to manually resolve each of them manually. would someone suggest the best practices /3rd party tools / tips for resolving ...

SVN merge files

Hello, I'm using TortoiseSVN as my SVN client. How can I know if a file was merged in the past ? Thank you. ...

Update to latest version from command line

Is there an SVN command-line utility that allows you to update a given directory / repository to the latest version? I would like to be able to remotely update our development server without having to go into remote desktop etc., as there are often times where all the RD terminals are in use, if it was command line I could do it via SSH...

What does a TortoiseSVN actually cleanup do?

What does a TortoiseSVN actually cleanup do? I have not found a pattern, but I frequently get asked to do a "cleanup" while trying to commit code. UPDATE: If TortoiseSVN knows when its dirty... Why doesn't it run a cleanup itself!?!? ...

My Subversion keeps excluding my files

Hi Every time I checkout my site from my repository. I notice most of my files that I have are excluded. So I have to go hunt down every file and include it in the project. This is very annoying. I am using Subversion and tortiseSVN for windows. What do I need to do to stop this? ...