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

For me, the same issue happened when I both:

• deleted (--force) a .map file
• added *.map to svn:ignore via svn propedit svn:ignore .

My solution was to:

1. undo changes to the property
2. commit changes to the files
3. checkout a fresh copy of the repository (alas!)
4. change the property and commit