Can't commit a delete using git-svn: Your file or directory is probably out of date

Question

I've been looking over this post, but still can't figure out how to solve my particular issue.

I'm using git-svn locally against a svn repository. I usually do the following:

1. git svn rebase (to get the latest from the repo).
2. git checkout local-dev
3. git merge master (to merge this into my local branch)
4. make changes, committing locally as I go
5. git checkout master
6. git merge local-dev
7. git svn dcommit (to sent it all back upstream)

Usually works fine, until I tried to commit my latest batch from the merged master back to the repository:

$ git svn dcommit

Committing to http://mysvnrepository ... D PROJECT/Content/js/dp/jquery-1.3.2.js

Merge conflict during commit: Your file or directory 'PROJECT/Content/js/dp' is probably out-of-date: resource out of date; try updating at C:\Program Files\Git/ libexec/git-core/git-svn line 508

I deleted this "/dp" folder sometime in my operations and git appeared to handle everything fine, but now it won't send to to svn.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

I don't know why you are getting the conflict, but my usual tactic in this situation is to do svn rebase again.

Answer 2

Someone was kind enough to help me in an irc channel. I ended up having to do my "git merge local-dev --squash" and that managed to help it out.