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

A common task I experienced was having to take one repo directory in staging and copy it to another repo - both under SVN and both called the same name. The way that worked for me was the following:

svn --force delete PROBLEMATIC-DIR
svn export "https://OLD REPO-A/ new-repo-A"
svn add new-repo-A
svn commit new-repo-A