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VisualSVN error when renaming a form - access is denied

I am using Visual Studio 2008, Tortoise 1.6.6, and VisualSVN 1.7.7. When I'm in Visual Studio if I rename a form it gives me this error: Can't set file 'C:\Dev\Production\Projects\Accounting\AP.Payables.svn\log' read-write: Access is denied. And then it says: Working copy 'C:\Dev\Production\Projects\Accounting\AP.Payables' locked I ca...

VisualSVN is not updating Pending Checkins window in VS2008

Recently, my Pending Checkins window in Visual Studio 2008 has been empty even though changes have been made to various files. What really vexing is that the Solution Explorer correctly marks the changed files with an orange dot instead of a green one. Is there any way of re-enabling this without resorting to reinstalling? ...

Installing VisualSVN when Apache is already installed

Is there any way I can install VisualSVN not installing Apache? The thing is that I already have Apache installed in the same server, so I want VisualSVN to use that Apache installation. By the way: I was told that VisualSVN is the best (easyest) alternative for installing SVN in Windows Server. Is that right? ...

How to I tell VisualSVN to do a replace instead of a merge?

We're finding ourselves unable to open our project in Visual Studio because SVN is adding lines like "<<<<<<< .mine" to our .csproj files. This is apparently something SVN inserts when it has trouble merging files, but we're not interested in merging things as two people can never have the same file checked out. How do we set Visual ...

BackUp and Restore SVN settings, How?

Hi, I have a svn configured in the windows server and having 2000 more revisions. So i would like to change the sever from Windows to linux, so i want to backup all the revision and restore to the new svn configuration under linux. How is it possible?? ...

Are there any free alternatives to VisualSVN?

Are there any free alternatives to VisualSVN (a Visual Studio 2008 plugin for subversion control)? Visual Studio Express 2008 support would be great. ...

How to automate Visual Studio tasks following SVN update?

I have several Visual Studio web application projects that include SVN externals. When a new file is added to an external module, VisualSVN brings it down to the file system, but doesn't add it to the Visual Studio project; it has to be manually added. I might write a macro to automate this process, and I'm wondering if I can make it a...

Help with subversion

I downloaded and installed visualsvn server, visualsvn and tortioseSVN. The installation web well. I set the repository root as e:\Repositories. Once installed I created a repository called Test, and added users. All is well so far. I already had a test project created in visual studio (2008), located at d:\projects\test so I opened...

Accidentally Delete Visual SVN Server Repository

Hi, A developer from our office accidentally deleted the Repository from the Visual SVN server. Every developer in the office has a copy of the files, so I'm not worried about the files. What I want to recover is the changes log. Can this be done? ...

How to rename a project in VisualSVN or by the client TortoiseSVN (win32 platform) ?

I tried to find any feature seems like 'rename' both on server side and client side but failed, is it possible? ...

subversion url redirect

I couldn't figure out how to do a repository url redirect in Svn... Here is a scenario: For SVN server we use Visual SVN, for clients mostly Tortoise SVN. We create a branch each time we do a production source rollover. Then the url looks like this: http://svnserver.blabla.com/branches/8%5F3%5F0%5F0/development ... next time will be ...

Should we migrate from svn to Team Foundation Server 2010?

We are with 6 developer and currently use Visual Studio 2008 Professional with SVN and Visual SVN. As soon as vs2010 is released we will upgrade from vs2008 pro to vs2010 premium. However if Team Foundation Server has a proper source control included in vs2010 premium, then it does make sense to use it. We like SVN, but like tight integ...

Is it possible to associate an existing working folder with a new repository

We had a series of unfortunate events with our VisualSVN server yesterday and we are trying to get back on track today. I have recreated the repository as suggested in this stackoverflow post. We recreated the repository with a co-workers working copy folder (svn-export, svn-import). But now when he tries to update we get an error mes...

Automatically create subversion revision file

I have a project who's structure in Subversion goes as follows, branch tags trunk -- Library ---- Library Code -- Website ---- Website Code The Library folder contains most of the project code and is a class library. The Website folder is a website project which uses the library. The website is what gets deployed to the live site. I ...

Best practices with SVN for files that always "change" with no change

We have a project that references files in a Common-directory. Whenever that project is opened or compiled, these files are copied. Because the timestamp changes, Subversion sees that as changes. I only want to commit new changes of the general Common-directory, or actual changes in the project. Not the auto-copies that the compiler perf...

How can I prevent users from committing binaries into subversion?

I have a headstrong user who stubbornly insists on committing his binaries (executables, DLLs) into our subversion repositories. I'd go in and delete them, but of course nothing is ever really deleted from subversion. While there are times when we need to commit binaries, I don't want users doing it as a matter of routine. I can set an ...

A VisualSVN question

How, if it is possible, would you use VisualSVN to retrieve source code from an open source project (such as on codeplex), but also have your own SVN repository locally such that you could keep a revision history for your own customizations, but still once and a while check the codeplex project for changes that I might want to apply to m...

best way to rename a file

using visual svn and tortoise svn here I renamed my file I notice it say add and delete which to me means history may be erased? What is the best way to rename a file without losing history in subversion? ...

Updating the trunk from my branch at regular intervals

I am working on a long term branch. I want to update the trunk with the stuff in my branch every week or so. I had been updating my branch from trunk using merge a range of revisions. I then used reintegrate a branch to merge my branch back into trunk. Then I went back to my branch and did merge a range of revisions and I got a ton o...

Changing svn repository url in externals property

I'm moving my repository to a new location, but I have folders with the (same) repository URL hard-coded in the externals properties. e.g: old URL: https://OldLocation.Domain/svn/ new URL: https://NewLocation.Domain/svn/ How can I change the old repository URL to the new one? simply editing the property doesn't work. ...