How do you overcome the svn 'out of date' error?

Question

I\'ve been attempting move a directory structure from one location to another in Subversion, but I get an Item \'*\' is out of date commit error.

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Answer 1

Are you sure you've checked out the head and not a lower revision? Also, have you done an update to make sure you've got the latest version?

There's a discussion about this on http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-01/0170.shtml.

Answer 2

I randomly recieved this error after deleting a few directories each containing some files. I deleted the directories through Netbeans and realised that it didn't actually delete them. It seemed to just delete everything inside the directories and removed the reference to the directory within Netbeans. They did still exist on the filesystem though. Make sure they're deleted from the filesystem and try the commit again.

Answer 3

Upgrade your server and client to Subversion 1.9.

If the out of date error randomly occurs when it normally should not, when you run commit, it may indicate that you are using an outdated and unsupported Subversion 1.7 or older client or server.

You should upgrade the server and clients in order to solve the problem. See the relevant Subversion 1.9 Release Notes entry: "Out of date" errors when committing over HTTPv1.

Answer 4

Just do svn up into command line or if you are in windows select the svn update option.

• Once this will done, this allow you to make further action like committing and others.

Answer 5

Tried all but change in .svn directly. Nothing helped so here's my solution.

In Eclipse > Window > Show View > History I've seen that file is not at the newest Revision, although I made multiple svn "Override & Update" / "Revert" / delete file and checkout.

So I went Package Explorer > Right click on file > Replace with > Latest from Repository.

Another look in the History View showed that file was now on latest Revision.

Answer 6

I sometimes get this with TortoiseSVN on windows. The solution for me is to svn update the directory, even though there are no revisions to download or update. It does something to the metadata, which magically fixes it.