How do you overcome the svn 'out of date' error?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been attempting move a directory structure from one location to another in Subversion, but I get an Item \'*\' is out of date commit error.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

There is at least one other cause of the message "out of date" error. In my case the problem was .svn/dir-props which was created by running "svn propset svn:ignore -F .gitignore ." for the first time. Deleting .svn/dir-props seems like a bad idea and can cause other errors, so it may be best to use "svn propdel" to clean up the errant "svn propset".

# Normal state, works fine.
> svn commit -m"bump"  
Sending        eac_cpf.xsl
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 509.

# Set a property, but forget to commit.
> svn propset svn:ignore -F .gitignore .
property 'svn:ignore' set on '.'

# Edit a file. Should have committed before the edit.
> svn commit -m"bump"                   
Sending        .
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File or directory '.' is out of date; try updating
svn: resource out of date; try updating

# Delete the property.
> svn propdel svn:ignore .              
property 'svn:ignore' deleted from '.'.

# Now the commit works fine.
> svn commit -m"bump"     
Sending        eac_cpf.xsl
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 510.

Answer 2

In my case only deleting of the local version and re checkout of fresh copy was a solution.

Answer 3

After trying all the obvious things, and some of the other suggestions here, with no luck whatsoever, a Google search led to this link (link not working anymore) - Subversion says: Your file or directory is probably out-of-date

In a nutshell, the trick is to go to the .svn directory (in the directory that contains the offending file), and delete the "all-wcprops" file.

Worked for me when nothing else did.

Answer 4

Are you moving it using svn mv, or just mv? I think using just mv may cause this issue.

Answer 5

I've found that this works for me:

svn update
svn resolved <dir>
svn commit

Answer 6

I moved the dir to my local machine for safe-keeping, then svn deleted the stupid directory, then committed. When I tried to add the folder from my local machine it STILL threw the error (SVN move did the same thing when I tried to rename the folder). So I reverted, then I did a mkdir DIRNAME, added, and committed. Then I added the contents in and committed, and it worked.