Dealing with Special Characters in iPhone 4 Graphics Filenames with Subversion

With the iPhone 4’s high-resolution screen, designers need to create two sets of art; the guidelines are to name the files like so: SomeCoolImage.png and SomeCoolImage@2x.png. Unfortunately, if you try to add these files to an SVN repository, the @ symbol throws them off:

$ svn add Icon\@2x~iphone.png
svn: warning: 'Icon' not found

The fix, thanks to the subversion_users Google Group, is to add another @ to the end of the filename, like so:

$ svn add ./Icon\@2x~iphone.png@
A  (bin)  Icon@2x~iphone.png

If you’d like to do this for all of your high-resolution art in a folder, here’s a tiny Bash command for the task:

for x in `ls *\@*`; do svn add $x\@; done