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The last line before "Subversion's Components" had an extra double quote at the end of the line
This HAS BEEN CORRECTED.

$ svn status
L abc.c # svn has a lock in its .svn directory for abc.c
M bar.c # the content in bar.c has local modifications
M baz.c # baz.c has property but no content modifications
X 3rd_party # this dir is part of an externals definition
? foo.o # svn doesn't manage foo.o
! some_dir # svn manages this, but it's either missing or incomplete
~ qux # versioned as dir, but is file, or vice versa
I .screenrc # this file is ignored
A + moved_dir # added with history of where it came from
M + moved_dir/README # added with history and has local modifications
D stuff/fish.c # this file is scheduled for deletion
A stuff/loot/bloo.h # this file is scheduled for addition
C stuff/loot/lump.c # this file has conflicts from an update
S stuff/squawk # this file or dir has been switched to a branch
...

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$ svn status
L abc.c # svn has a lock in its .svn directory for abc.c
M bar.c # the content in bar.c has local modifications
M baz.c # baz.c has property but no content modifications
X 3rd_party # this dir is part of an externals definition
? foo.o # svn doesn't manage foo.o
! some_dir # svn manages this, but it's either missing or incomplete
~ qux # versioned as dir, but is file, or vice versa
I .screenrc # this file is ignored
A + moved_dir # added with history of where it came from
M + moved_dir/README # added with history and has local modifications
D stuff/fish.c # this file is scheduled for deletion
A stuff/loot/bloo.h # this file is scheduled for addition
C stuff/loot/lump.c # this file has conflicts from an update
S stuff/squawk # this file or dir has been switched to a branch
...

As we've seen, invoking svn diff with no switches will compare your working files to
the cached "pristine" copies in the.svn area:

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As we've seen, invoking svn diff with no switches will compare your working files to
the cached "pristine" copies in the .svn area:

The section mentioned above shows example svn log output with a list of changed paths. To the left of each file, is a letter indicating the type of change. However, I could not find an explanation anywhere of what those letters mean. The actual output has the entries indented, as well, somewhat confuling the situation.

The questions that need to be answered are:
1. What do the letters mean? Are they the same as the "svn status" output (which is documented, I believe)
2. Since in other output there are multiple columns of symbols, is this the case with the "svn log -v" output? Is there any way to tell whether the file itself was changed, whether it was a property change, or both?

Note from the Author or Editor:
The explanation of the svn log codes are in the reference entry on 'svn log' at the back of the book. That said, it might be nice to mention the letter code meanings when we first show the verbose-mode output of 'svn log'. I'll file an enhancement on this over in the public bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/svnbook

There's only a single letter code shown next to changed paths. The only way to see whether it was a textual or property modification is to run 'svn diff' on the changeset.

the second code listing on the page had a "&hellip" which was an untranslated ellipsis. This HAS BEEN CORRECTED to appear as "..." as in the prior examples.

There a few different ways to invoke ...

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... Subversion has it own uses for properties, ...

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