> -----Original Message----- > From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:48 AM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Getting "file already exists" error for file that couldn't > exist? > > I'm using the Subversive plugin in Eclipse, but I think I need to > understand the scope of the problem I'm getting just within Subversion. > > I created a file in my Eclipse workspace that I'm certain didn't exist > before. I did a "svn add" through the plugin. I committed it. I got > the following error: > > svn: File already exists: filesystem '/cm/websvn/db', transaction > '128517-1', path '<path to the file I created>' > > I then aborted the commit, reverted the add, deleted the file, did a > "svn update", created the file again, added it, and committed it, and I > got the same error. > > What could be happening here?
I browsed the SVN repo, and the file is there. However, when I do a svn update, it doesn't put the file in my workspace (and I now see a couple of other files from that directory that aren't showing up there). What do I have to do to force the update in that directory?
