How to fix “containing working copy admin area is missing” in SVN?

Question

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can\'t restore the directory.

Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with:

Answer 1

I came across this problem when replacing a third party API library with a newer version, and none of the solutions here really worked for me because I wanted to replace the SVN version with the local version. My solution was as follows:

1) Move the offending folder to my home dir, delete it from SVN and commit:

mv foldercausingproblem ~/
svn --force delete foldercausingproblem
svn commit --message "Temporary removing folder with old API"

2) Put the folder back, add it to SVN and commit again:

mv ~/foldercausingproblem ./
svn --force add .
svn commit --message "Finally all working!"

Slightly irritating to have to commit twice, but it seems to have worked fine.