Possible Duplicate: how does version control work? I have an SVN repository that I've set up on my VPS, and I know all the basics (update, commit), but I don't know what all the other options mean. I am running TortoiseSVN on Windows (which is great!) and can see all these features like branching, locking, merging and patchin...
hi there! I'm trying to move certain files from one branch to another or many but when I try to copy (using tortoiseSVN) it tells me the folder already exists :/ is there anyway to propagate changes from one branch to others? ...
I have been asked to setup visualsvn for visual studio 2008 Due to firewall restrictions and server configuration. I need to use ssh tunneling. My problem is this. The local machine needs to connect to a gateway machine via ssh then connect to the subversion server so Local machine ---{ssh}--- gateway ---{ssh}-- subversion server I ...
I did a ton of changes to our code and before I commit, I would like a friend to review. Is there a way with SVN to take a copy of my working copy (to bundle everything in a package) and apply the changes I have made so far to another machines without having to commit? In the past, with another source control system, I was able to do th...
I have a project which uses a large library residing in its own repository. Using: TortoiseSVN, the server is running an enterprise edition of VisualSVN The project itself has the "standard" structure: trunk tags branches In each branch, tag, and trunk is the library, set as an external (svn:external property). If I get the entire ...
I am merging a hot fix from our QA branch back into our Dev branch. Five files have changed. I do a fresh checkout of the Dev branch. I then do a merge (range of revisions) from QA into the Dev working copy. It brings in five files and there is a conflict on an external and ignore property -- which I resolve by "using local" (dev). ...
I am trying to set up an svn repository on a linux server. What permissions do I need to set so users within a group are able to checkout/update/add to the repository using their unix login/password over ssh on TotoiseSVN? I tried setting 770 and it does not seem to work. ...
I'm trying to use some scripts that came from TortoiseSVN to do some docx merges, but the script doesn't seem to be working right. Has anybody used this feature in TortoiseSVN? How does it normally work? ...
Hi, I was going to ask this in tigris.org, however they have maintenance in their forum. My environment: Windows 7 x64, Tortoisesvn latest x64, simple repo. What I'm doing: I am adding a new file to repo, then doing SVN Commit. This operation is successful and I can see it in repo from trac or directly. I expect: To see that file's i...
I read some question/answers here about how to do it using svnadmin/dump etc. Actually I did not understand properly what I'm supposed to do. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/939963/how-to-migrate-svn-to-another-repository I think I have to do some sort of dump from the Google code repository using svnadmin, but where do I ge...
Has anyone used TortoiseSVN to merge .NET resource files (.resx) from branch to trunk? From my experience, WinMerge fails to merge files that contain Unicode. ...
I created a new class in VS. For some reason Tortoise is not picking it up and I can't figure out why. Wondering if anyone has had this issue? I am not excluding .cs or do not have * in my filter so not sure what the deal is. All other files picked up just fine. ...
I am doing an SVN merge for a branch, and in one of the files I see this: GetQueryReferenceData(int sessionId, Int32 sessionId) Which means that the merge tool just added another parameter without asking any questions. Imagine if it was a call to Substring(0) and in another branch it would be Substring(0,2). That is completely differe...
Recently, I had to move my SVN repositories to a different server, but I am experiencing some performance problems since the move. I am using Visual Studio 2005, AnkhSVN 2.1.7819.411 and TortoiseSVN 1.6.6 on my workstation and VisualSVN Server on the server which runs Windows Server 2008. Whenever I try to commit a file or view the fi...
I'm starting a new project. I familiar with TortoiseSVN, and all its downsides. Shall I start using Mercurial instead? What are the pros and cons using Mercurial over Subversion? ...
It seems to me that if I enable proxy server in TortoiseSVN then pure command line svn client also starts work via proxy server. Is it correct? If yes - where TortoiseSVN stores this setting? ...
Hi, I want to set the svn:needs-lock property on a local directory, and then to commit it. I want to do it from the command line and it seems to not letting me. my command is: svn propset svn:needs-lock '*' d:\src_svn\Multilizer the answer I get is: svn: Cannot set 'svn:needs-lock' on a directory ('D:\src_svn\Multilizer') what can...
Will tortoise let me mix repositories in the same and if so how? What I would like is to store code, configs and binaries in separate repositories. ...
Is there a way in TortoiseSVN - without the regular svn client binaries being installed on the system - to detect an orphaned checkout's revision number? "Orphaned" meaning that the source it was checked out from no longer exists. ...
I've created an SVN repository and added folders and added contents and Committed. No problem. But when go to add a new folder (the others were on the P:\ drive, now I want to add our website which is on the C:\ drive) but Tortoise doesn't give me the option of Adding a folder. I have no idea why. Help file shows the instructions I'd ...