How to 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 incomple

Answer 1

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).