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I'm about to do a commit in TortoiseSVN involving rearranging a lot of files and directories. On the "commit" window, there are several files whose text status is "deleted" or "added" but others whose text status is "deleted (+)" or "added (+)". What does the (+) mean?
(It's quite difficult to Google for a plus sign, and the word "plus" turns up lots of hits about the blue overlay icon meaning "added")
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That means the Subversion status is normal. As soon as you start editing a file, the status changes to modified and the icon overlay then changes to a red exclamation mark. That way you can easily see which files were changed since you last updated your working copy and need to be committed.
How do I uninstall TortoiseSVN? Simply uninstall from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel. This does not affect your repositories or working copies at all.
The main difference between SVN and TortoiseSVN is that the SVN is a distributed version control system while TortoiseSVN is an SVN client implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension. In brief, SVN is a version control system. On the other hand, TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client.
The files with normal(+) will be added to the commit, but you don't need to check it for committing. As the parent folder has an added(+) status, it will be included recursively. Also, no transfer from your local copy to the server will be done, as the file is already on the server.
The "+" means that TortoiseSVN was able to figure out the item's history, and has added the history metadata to this commit. For instance, say you rename a file from a to b. If you see the (+), Tortoise knows that you didn't really delete a file called a and make a file called b, and has determined that a rename took place.
That's good, because it means you can trace the history of b backwards to the point where it used to be a. Otherwise, you'd hit a dead end, and it would look like b sprang out of nowhere in the history. You can mouseover these entries and see more details about where they came from.
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Deleted(+) is used to indicate that the file isn't really gone, it's just been renamed, and there is an associated added(+) that represents the new file.
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