Make a normal add out of a svn copy

Asked Sep 21 '17 at 08:58

Active Sep 22 '17 at 14:37

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I copied a file in my SVN-aware IDE (Visual Studio with Ankh) and modified it. This did a svn copy of the file like it should usually. In this case, however, I wanted to add it normally without connection to the other file.

This is what I did (using TortoiseSVN), which works, but is kind of awkward:

Undo add the copied file, which deletes the file and puts it in the Recycle Bin
Restore the deleted file from the Recycle Bin
Re-add the file to SVN

Note: this all happened in the working copy without a commit first.

Is there a better way to do this? (i.e. make a copied staged file into a normal added one)

Edit: It seems that svn rm --keep-local (followed by svn add) might do what I want on the command line (I haven't tried it yet). But I haven't seen the option in TortoiseSVN though. See also here.

edited Sep 22 '17 at 14:37

asked Sep 21 '17 at 08:58

Joachim Mairböck

Why do you want to copy the file without retaining its history? – bahrep Sep 21 '17 at 13:26
@bahrep Because logically it doesn't have anything to do with the other, I just copied it because I wanted less typing (being a lazy programmer ...) – Joachim Mairböck Sep 22 '17 at 14:22

Make a normal add out of a svn copy

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