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

Can you try to check out a new copy of the parent directory?

Edit: To be bit more specific, I meant to suggest going up one level and deleting the containing directory. Then do a

svn update --set-depth infinity

to replace the directory.

Answer 2

First of all checkout the project into your system in a folder. Then remove the .svn folder from conflict project and copy the .svn folder from new checkout folder and paste into your working copy folder. Then problem is solved.

Answer 3

According to this: http://www.devcha.com/2008/03/svn-directory-svn-containing-working.html

Check-out the folder "blabla" to a different location and then copy its .svn folder back into the original "blabla".

Answer 4

I tried svn rm --force /path/to/dir to no avail but ended up just running svn up and it fixed it for me.

Answer 5

I had this error recently. It was caused by root owning a couple of files in the directory giving this error.

After I changed the permissions everything worked as expected.

Answer 6

I just did 'svn revert /blabla' and it worked, the folder is back and I can svn delete it