svn status after revert reports ignored files

Question

I changed a lot of source-code files using a shell-script and reverted the changes with the command svn revert -R .. Every change had been undone correctly, but now I'm wondering why svn status reports ignored files:

$> svn status
!    .
!    src
!    src/lib
!    src/lib/common
!    src/lib/common/parser
!    src/lib/common/parser/xml

This is the entire output! I have much more folders, but I cannot tell you why only those appear here. None of the upper folders are added to svn:ignore property!

Does anybody know what happened?

Thanks in advance ...

Answer 1

svn help status documents the '!' as:

 '!' item is missing (removed by non-svn command) or incomplete

Which explains what happened: Some files were added to subversion and after that deleted. The 'ignored' setting only applies to files that were never added (or "unversioned files").

The 'incomplete' status is another possible reason for this status. In this case a previous update operation was canceled (or failed).

In both cases you can resolve this problem by simply running 'svn update' (again).