In other words, it represents a missing state or a deleted state. A red X mark tells you that there is a missing file or that some files are going to be deleted from version control. A green checkmark icon shows that the file status is normal. On the other hand, if a file icon has a yellow exclamation mark, this means there is a conflict. It represents three states: modified, replaced, or merged. The red exclamation mark, for example, means that the file has changed. It uses an overlay icon to show the Subversion status of each of the file in the working copy. TortoiseSVN allows you to see the status of your files simply by looking at their icons in Windows Explorer. There is an indicator in each of the entries that let you know what the entry is for. Note that several TortoiseSVN entries may appear when you right-click on a shortcut in a versioned folder. To do so, open the Settings window, go to the Context Menu section, and uncheck any item that you want to show up in the submenu. Most of the commands appear in a submenu to reduce the clutter, but you can choose which commands that you want to appear in the main context menu, and which ones that you want to be visible only in the submenu. All of TortoiseSVN’s commands can be found in its context menu, but only those that make sense for the selected folder or file are visible. Instead of looking through your Start menu, open Windows Explorer, and right-click on a folder. So, if TortoiseSVN’s context menu doesn’t appear in your file manager, you have to use Windows Explorer or find another file manager. It is simply because TortoiseSVN is developed for Windows Explorer. However, it might not be able to integrate well with some third-party file managers.

Even if you use a different file manager, you can still access TortoiseSVN’s context menu in that file manager. The context menu appears in Open dialog window as well. It integrates into the Windows shell but it is not limited to Windows Explorer only. TortoiseSVN is one of widely known clients for Apache Subversion.

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