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Martin
Martin

Reputation: 11865

How to fix Subversion «!» status

The Subversion manual states:

'!'

Item is missing (e.g. you moved or deleted it without using svn). This also indicates that a directory is incomplete (a checkout or update was interrupted).

But as so often with Subversion, there is no indication on how to fix the problem.

Normally, I would use my trusted Fix_Subversion.command but this time it is trunk and it will take forever.

So is there any faster option?

Upvotes: 67

Views: 65109

Answers (6)

user8942419
user8942419

Reputation:

In my case I have committed with a message the parent folder that has the red flag, and then all the nested folders that had the icon including the parent folder are cleared.

Upvotes: 1

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 695

If you deleted a file and it's marked with !, just run svn rm --force <filename> to tell SVN to delete the file from the repository also.

Upvotes: 1

dawez
dawez

Reputation: 2724

I tried to revert & cleanup but it did not fix my issue. The solution I found is a bit harsh but worked:

  1. rename the old_folder to new_folder.
  2. from the parent issue a svn up old_folder
  3. copy back the files from the new_folder [avoiding coping the .svn folder from the new_folder].

the I deleted the new_folder and in this way I managed to have a cleaned old_folder.

Upvotes: 3

Zaz
Zaz

Reputation: 48769

What exactly did you do to the branch before you received this error?

If you're having regular problems with SVN, you're probably doing something wrong (e.g. using mv/rm as opposed to svn mv/svn rm on the branch).

Upvotes: 1

Wrikken
Wrikken

Reputation: 70460

svn revert /path/to/file
svn rm /path/to/file      # if you want to delete it from svn itself

Golden rule is: once something is under svn-control, any moving, deleting, renaming, should be done with svn commands (svn mv, svn rm, etc.), not using normal filesystem/file-explorer functions.

Upvotes: 75

Ether
Ether

Reputation: 53966

What happens after you run:

svn cleanup .
svn update
svn status

Upvotes: 24

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