If you can't add a directory to SVN

• 06 December 2005

If you try to add a directory to Subversion and it tells you:

svn: warning: 'yourDirectory' is already under version control

And you know it isn't, specifically because you have recently checked out this entire project and that directory didn't appear after check out, then here is the way to add it:

cd to yourDirectory

rm -rf .svn

cd ..

svn add yourDirectory

The reason this works is because you probably have copied over a directory from another place and it already had SVN information associated with it.

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