Accidentally committed the .svn directory.

Question

I accidentally committed a folder named .svn to a Subversion repository. Now when I try to check out or update I get this error message:

svn: Failed to add directory 'oops/conferences/.svn': an unversioned directory of the same name already exists

I removed the directory in the next commit, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Delete the folder and then update to the head revision. Otherwise you may need to rebuild your repository I believe. I'm not an expert but I've done this before. I just fixed it be updating my repository.

Answer 2

svn revert back to the revision before you deleted the .svn folder.

See: http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Useful_SVN_Commands

Answer 3

Have you tried to remove the folder directly in the SVN repository?

svn delete http://my.svnserver.org/path/.svn

Most SVN commands can take either a local path into the working copy or an URL into the repository. You should be careful with the latter, since this performs the action directly, without any need to commit.