On Mar 9, 2011, at 18:11, Michael Diers wrote: > On 2011-03-09 21:22, Stephen P Rufle wrote: >> I am trying the following. >> svn ren "4...@20hrs.jpg" "48 hrs.jpg" >> >> I get the following message >> svn: '48' is not under version control >> >> I would like to automate the task of renaming ~100 files. I was able to >> use TortoiseSVN to do a single file manually, but am not sure how to get >> this to work from the command line. >> >> Please help :) > > Stephen, > > what command line interpreter (shell) are you using? > > The files to be renamed must be referred to with a trailing "@", > like so: > > svn ren "4...@20hrs.jpg@" "48 hrs.jpg"
And just to explain why: This is because Subversion reserves a special use for the @ character: specifying a peg revision number. (Peg and operative revisions are explained in the book at http://svnbook.org ) Subversion takes "48" as the filename and "20hrs.jpg" as the peg revision, and isn't smart enough to realize that that's not a valid revision number and just tries to use it as one anyway; to avoid that, you add the extra "@" at the end, which will end up using the correct filename "4...@20hrs.jpg" and a revision number "" (the empty string), which is fine.
