svn command line (Windows, from TortoiseSVN): no output from "svn status"?

Question

Started using TortoiseSVN, one issue buggers me: I don't see ovelray for non-versioned files. I've read that this can happen (still, it sucks), so I moved to the next level: use command line.

svn info works fine, but svn status (from the very same directory) gives no output at all.

What's wrong?

Answer 1

By default svn status will return nothing from the command line if no modifications have been made to the working copy.

If you would like see the status of files (including non-versioned) you can add the verbose flag to the command line: svn status -v.

This will list the repository with the status of each file, revision number, and last person who committed changes. Non-versioned files will be marked with a "?".