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Re: Subdirectory already exists...

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:20:01 +0000

2009/1/10 jwezel <jwezel_at_compumaster.de>:
> Hello together,
>
> I'm getting following error message while updating:
>
> Update
> Konnte Verzeichnis »D:\Christ-Sein\Seminare« nicht hinzufügen: ein
> versioniertes Verzeichnis mit demselben Namen existiert bereits
>
> English:
> Could not add directory [...]: a versioned directory with the same
> name already exists.
>
> D:\Christ-Sein\ is my checkout directory for my repository; the folder
> "Seminare" is one of several subdirectories.
> Well, my current local directory "Seminare" has been successfully
> created by updates on the parent directory in the past. And there
> hasn't been a problem till yet. But now it doesn't recognize it
> anymore as a valid directory.
> Updates at "Seminare" still work as expected. Only updates at the
> parent folder don't work any more.
>
> There are two possiblities:
> 1. I drop the current folder "Seminare" and do a new update at the
> parent folder. Then it will be recreated again.
> 2. (Tortoise)SVN has got a bug detecting the directory managed by
> itself. The problem will be solved in (Tortoise)SVN.
>
> Regards
> Jochen

Try the "check for modifications" dialog. Maybe you have a nested
working copy somehow?

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Received on 2009-01-12 18:20:34 CET

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