What does the Subversion status symbol "~" mean?

Question

I am getting a tilde symbol when I do an svn status.

Here is the output of the project after editing it in XCode.

svn status M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/imports.pbxbtree M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/pbxindex.header M      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/symbols0.pbxsymbols ~      build/Currency_Converter.build/Currency_Converter.pbxindex/strings.pbxstrings M      main.m //more changed files 

Any idea what that means? Can't seem to find it on google or any of the svn cheat sheets.

Interestingly, I only edited main.m, but there are lots of modified files. I don't know why that would be. Anyone have any tips for working with SVN and XCode? Should I only be putting my source files under version control?

Edit: Caused by a file that was already under version control being replaced by a file of another type. In this case, strings.pbxstrings used to be a file and now became a directory. Moral of the story is don't put your build folder into version control.

Answer 1

The SVN Book says:

Item is versioned as one kind of object (file, directory, link), but has been replaced by different kind of object.

So perhaps it was originally a single file, but you changed it to a directory, or something along those lines?

Answer 2

Here's what i did:

If the folder is Test

1. mv Test Test1
2. svn remove Test
3. mv Test1 Test