Howto fix subversion «!» status.

Question

The subversion manual states:

'!'

Item is missing (e.g. you moved or deleted it without using svn). This also indicates that a directory is incomplete (a checkout or update was interrupted).

But as so often with Subversion the is no indication on how to fix the problem. Normally I would use my trusted Fix_Subversion.command but this time it is trunk and it will take forever.

So is there any faster option?

Answer 1

What happens after you run:

svn cleanup .
svn update
svn status

Answer 2

What exactly did you do to the branch before you received this error?

If you're having regular problems with SVN, you're probably doing something wrong (e.g. using mv/rm as opposed to svn mv/svn rm on the branch).

Answer 3

svn revert /path/to/file
svn rm /path/to/file      # if you want to delete it from svn itself

Golden rule is: once something is under svn-control, any moving, deleting, renaming, should be done with svn commands (svn mv, svn rm, etc.), not using normal filesystem/file-explorer functions.