What does the Subversion status symbol "~" mean?

Question

I am getting a tilde symbol when I do an svn status.

Here is the output of the project after editing it in XCode.

svn status
M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/imports.pbxbtree
M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/pbxindex.header
M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/symbols0.pbxsymbols
~      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/strings.pbxstrings
M      main.m
//more changed files

Any idea what that means? Can't seem to find it on google or any of the svn cheat sheets.

Interestingly, I only edited main.m, but there are lots of modified files. Dunno why that would be. Anyone have any tips for working with SVN and XCode? Should I only be putting my source files under version control?

Edit: - caused by a file that was already under version control being replaced by a file of another type. In this case, strings.pbxstrings used to be a file and now became a directory. Moral of the story is don't put your build folder into version control.

Answer 1

The SVN Book says:

Item is versioned as one kind of object (file, directory, link), but has been replaced by different kind of object.

So perhaps it was originally a single file, but you changed it to a directory, or something along those lines?

Answer 2

From

svn help status

'~' versioned item obstructed by some item of a different kind

I have only seen this where the file permissions had changed and svn had no execute access on it I beleive.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The easiest way to fix this is to backup, then delete the folder or file that has this status and then do "svn up": it's not necessarily a folder relplaced by a file, it might be just that .svn folder is missing or corrupted.

Answer 4

It may be also matter of symbolic links under Windows. When you commit symbolic link into SVN and then check it out under Windows, links are changed to regular files and this is also reported as ~.