TortoiseSVN - missing files in client

Question

I just deleted two files in the client and when tried to update those two files were missing, but they were in the server.

I tried "cleanup" and then "update" which didn't work. But when I checked out a new version to a different location the files were there.

In what situation this scenario happens? Initially I have "added" files to the server but it happened to be that the server already has those files.

P.S. I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.5.6.

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Problem went away when I deleted the whole sub containing folder and did another "update" under the parent folder. what caused this?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I can acknowledge that this issue still exists in TortoiseSVN 1.9.2, Build 28806 - 64 Bit, running on Windows 7.

Even after removing big parts of the directory tree and doing an update afterwards the missing file won't be restored. "svn revert", "svn cleanup" etc. also don't work. But I can restore the file from command line with "svn update dir/missing_file.txt". A simple "svn update dir" didn't work.

Answer 2

I got the same issue. I am posting it here to avoid creating an unnecessary duplicate question for a similar problem. Revert did not work. Cleanup or clear of cache also did not work.

What worked for me was to update to an earlier version, and then updating to the newest version.

Answer 3

I see this a lot with the Subversive plugin in Eclipse and the command line SVN client. When following HEAD it usually doesn't happen, but when I switch to an earlier revision and back to head I usually lose a file that was added or removed in the mean time. "svn up folder/" does not restore them, "svn up folder/file" does ("Added"). I didn't see that with earlier subversion versions, to me this seems to be regression in 1.5 or 1.6.

Answer 4

Right click on the folder where you deleted the files, select revert, the files should appear there with the Missing status, select only those files and click Ok.