Thanks that did it. I had thought it might have had something to do with
peg revisions, but was unsure how to escape the syntax.
On 3/9/2011 6:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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.
