[Thorsten Gunkel] > No, I can live with that. If I want to overwrite that files anyway I > can delete them manually if svn complains. > > So in short the solution to my problem is > <URL:http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import>?
That's it, yeah. > > There have been some requests for upstream to deal with this > > situation more gracefully, but from what I can recall, the > > discussions haven't ever ended conclusively and nobody has stepped > > up to do the work. > > Maybe it would be enough to modify the error message to explain what > can be done to make the folder a working copy? Well, your original approach: # svn update svn: Working copy 'etc' is missing or not locked is already confusing to me - how did you tell svn the address of your repository in the first place? And I wonder why it didn't complain at that time.
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