TortoiseSVN The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control

TortoiseSVN uses up to seven overlay slots for the status:

A fresh checked out working copy has a green checkmark as overlay. 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.

If during an update a conflict occurs then the icon changes to a yellow exclamation mark.

If you have set the svn:needs-lock property on a file, Subversion makes that file ReadOnly until you get a lock on that file. Read-only files have this overlay to indicate that you have to get a lock first before you can edit that file.

If you hold a lock on a file, and the Subversion status is normal, this icon overlay reminds you that you should release the lock if you are not using it to allow others to commit their changes to the file.

This icon shows you that some files or folders inside the current folder have been scheduled to be deleted from version control or a file under version control is missing in a folder.

The plus sign tells you that a file or folder has been scheduled to be added to version control.

Unlike TortoiseCVS (the CVS shell integration) no overlay icon for unversioned files is shown. We do this because the number of icon overlays are limited system wide and should be used economically.

In some situations the overlay icons may not appear. This can happen on older Windows version (before Win2K) or if other applications install overlay handlers as well, since overlay icons are a limited ressource in Windows.