What does exclaimation point symbol mean for files during XCode commit?

Question

When committing changes to an SVN repository from within XCode some of the files have the "!" symbol in the right column (see screen capture).

What does this symbol mean and what should I do w/ these files? It seems to be any time a file is deleted from the project.

Answer 1

It means that the file is known to the version control system, but missing or damaged locally. Here's a list of SVN status codes:

http://knaddison.com/technology/svn-status-code-cheat-sheet

Often the solution to this problem is to go into the folder containing these files, and remove the .svn folder from it. In particular, this should work if the problem started happening after you copied/imported folders/files from another project (already under version control) into your current project. The issue is that the .svn folders are not portable cross project/repository. Trying to import a .svn folder from somewhere else just causes the version control system to get confused.