How to solve svn --force rm .

Question

So you have a directory with a file

dir/myfile

dir is inside a svn folder and you do

svn add dir

svn --force rm dir/.*

You were trying to not add some .something files but you did it the wrong way. You now do ls and dir is no there. You have a problem. You still have a copy of myfile, so you do:

mkdir newdir
cd newdir
cp fromsomeplace/myfile .
svn add .

But no. svn complains that newdir is scheduled to be removed.

Note this:

$ svn status
D    .

Answer 1

how about reverting to the pristine working copy you started with?

svn revert dir

or maybe

svn revert newdir

and then start over (you say you have a copy of myfile anyway.)