Status “S” in Subversion

Question

At some point all files in my working copy got marked with \"S\" symbol as shown below:

$ svn st
M    S   AclController.php
     S   InstallationController.php
          


        

Answer 1

I had 'S' status while switching from trunk (r100) to some branch (r50). I got the error :

svn: Failed to add file 'web/.htaccess': an unversioned file of the same name already exists

All web/'s subdirs were 'S' flagged.

The cause : i had deleted .htaccess to svn:ignore it (r100), then had created it again (unversioned and ignored). The branch (r50) still had web/.htaccess in the repo.

The solution :

mv web/.htaccess ../../
svn switch back to trunk
svn switch to branch again

Everything's fine.