Questions tagged [tortoisesvn]
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64-bit TortoiseSVN on Windows 7 says "file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" then runs chkdsk
I'm using 64-bit TortoiseSVN on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. Every so often a checkout or update will fail with an error message like the following.
Error: Can't move
Error: '[...]\\.svn\tmp\entries'
Error: to
Error: '[...]\\.svn\entries':…

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SVN: Where is my repository?
I'm trying to backup my SVN respository.
My problem: I forgot where I put my repository on the hard disk.
How can I find this?
FYI: I'm using TortoiseSVN if that helps.

Jim G.
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TortoiseSVN missing file in update
We have occasionally had a problem with TortoiseSVN (I assume it's Tortoise and not our SVN repository), where a file will be checked in to the repository (doing a repo-browser you can see the files there), and will exist for the person who…

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Add folder to SVN repository without checking out or committing?
When using something like TortoiseSVN, you can use it's repo-browser to browse repositories and do stuff. One thing you can do is create directories in the repository. Normally you would have to checkout the repo, then create and add the directories…

Jake Wilson
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Moving a folder in SVN
This is on Win2k3sp2, using TortoiseSVN 1.6.5 and SlikSVN 1.6.3.
I have a folder in a repo, call it /a/b, which I want to become /a/c/d in the same repo. I have tried just moving the folder and renaming it, and then committing, and apparently it…

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Subversion Edge LDAP (require CAC Certificate not Username and Password)
What I've Done:
I've successfully installed and configured Subversion Edge 3.1.2 with LDAP support on a Windows 2008 server. I have configured LDAP users and am able to use LDAP credentials to work on repositories just fine. No issues whatsoever.…

Frank Hale
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SVN Checkout error on large repositories
I wonder if anyone can help me. We have recently migrated our Subversion repository from a VisualSVN Server on Windows to a subversion server on CentOS.
The migration was succesfull however we are getting the following error message
Error REPORT of…

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Different SVN Server versions and Clients
We are going to migrate from CVS to SVN using Subversion 1.6. But also we have another SVN-Server using Subversion 1.2 (no chance to update). So we plan to use the newer TortoiseSVN 1.6.x
Is it possible to use two different servers while using only…

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SVN Server stopped working properly (403 Forbidden)
Ok, first of all, I've already googled a lot about this problem, but didn't found any solution...
I've searched here and on ServerFault, but didn't found anything, so I end up posting this question here (don't really sure if it goes here or in…

empz
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Installing TortoiseSVN for specific users on Citrix XenApp
The question here is straight-forward: how do I install TortoiseSVN on Citrix XenApp so that only specific people can see/use the program, without a 2nd group of people even seeing that the program exists?
Under Citrix's old MetaframeXP product,…

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svn Error when commiting-Access denied: 'foobar' MKACTIVITY MYREPO:
I'm currently working with Apache and SVN with ActiveDirectory Authentication. The user is using TortoiseSVN client.
I should point out that I have 2 repos with same name and different mapping but redirected to the same "user url" since the…

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SVN - Error Rep Repository UUID 'XXX...' doesn't match expected 'XXX..'
Zend Framework's SVN server went down yesterday, now it's back I'm still getting an error from my external 'Zend' directory. Whenever I try to update or switch to another branch I get this error.
Error Repository UUID 'XXXX...' doesn't match…

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TortoiseSVN on Windows - checkout error "...is not a valid as filename in directory"
I have a project under SVN control. SVN and repository reside on a Linux Debian 6 server. On the server I have a working copy as well (for Apache to show the website for test purposes).
The checkout on the server (svn co /path/to/projectworkingcopy…

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Is there a way to have tortisesvn use Windows 7 kerberos tickets to auth against an apache svn server?
I have putty able to use gssapi on my Windows 7 x64 clients against kerberos logins for SSH. I.e. it forwards the ticket you get when you log in to windows. I can't figure out how to get tortiseSVN to do the same. I can get it to prompt me for my…

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Hide TortoiseSVN overlay icons everywhere
I have recently discovered that TortoiseSVN allows hiding overlay icons through the
Right Click > TortoiseSVN > Settings > Icon Overlays
But apparently if i set the status cache to None i see that the icon overlays disappear for all the files but…

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