Subversion renaming file

We have the same problem as before, the new file and the old file have no relationship for SVN. I heard the hipsters use the console a lot.

I am a hipster wanna-be. Oh, and on top of being hip I want to do the right thing, for a change. After adding the new file to the solution and committing we will be able to enjoy SVN linking the new file with the old file so that we can diff and track changes regardless of the name of the file. Go to the Solution Explorer , right click the MyProgram. As we are in the happy nineties I deeply pity you if you are still using InterDev one has to go to the file, rename the class and rename all instances of the class.

Were we successful in renaming? We were indeed. With the help of of AnkhSVN we could catch the renaming file event and tell SVN to issue a move command so that we can diff the file with it renamed ancestor at will. If we move our hands away from the keyboard to grab the mouse to renamed stuff we are doing it wrong.

We can use one of the multiple refactoring tools available ReSharper is the one for me to rename the class and the file in one go. But being sleek and wrong as in not preserving the history of the file is no fun.

Not in our case, as the rename succeeded in preserving the history of the item. Renaming files can be confusing and one can very easily remove the history connection between a newly renamed file and its ancestors.

Since we like to keep history alive we better stay inside Visual Studio and use some sort of refactoring tool with the added bonus that we are maintaining the convention of file-per-type alongside a SVN plugin inside Visual Studio to perform our file renames.

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Issue , created on September 11, , proposes a change in the way Subversion handles file renaming. Presently, as has been the case for more than a decade and a half, the version control software renames files by copying them to a new location and then deleting the original files at the old location.

As a way to implement file renaming on a desktop computer, this might be acceptable. But for a version control system, designed to track files over time in relation to all the other files in a code repository, Subversion's approach leaves something to be desired. The problem is that copying an old file into a new one leaves the old file's revision history behind. And barring unforeseen circumstances, it's an issue that itself will soon be history. A Reg reader alerting us to the long-awaited patch heralded the glorious event thus: "Inspired by that observation and the vast number of Git users satisfied with how it handles file-renaming, the new set of patches will switch Subversion to also track content of files, thereby making the hoary, barbate issue academic.

That may be overstating the scope of the solution. While Subversion 1. Stefan Sperling, an open source consultant and contributor to Subversion — which is overseen by The Apache Foundation — said in an email to The Register that issue is very broad in scope. As a start, the plan is to introduce a new " conflict resolver " that automates the resolution of tree conflicts.

There are no server-side changes involved at all, which makes this a relatively non-intrusive change. Sperling noted that some work by contributor Julian Foad to address the challenge of merging renames between branches through an "element-based merge" remains unfinished and won't make it into the 1.

As a preview of how renaming will work, Sperling offered an example in which a file was renamed in the repository and locally modified in the working copy. The update, he said, requires no user interaction in this instance and the local change automatically gets incorporated into the new file. Sperling cautioned that Subversion 1. So I am thankful for this answer. I upvoted you. Using anything else kept causing it to revert anytime I updated. In my case the change was capitalization of the file names.

I think the issue in my case stems from the fact that Windows is case insensitive. This worls, but you will lose the history of the file.

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