Question

Here we can see that SVN is not adding files that need to be added, and not committing:

$ ls -la forum
drwxr-xr-x  6 dotan.cohen coders   4096 Apr  9 02:09 before
$ svn status
?       tags
?       forum/before
$ svn add forum/before --force
$ svn status
?       tags
?       forum/before
$ svn commit -m "Some Comment"
$

The first command (ls -la) shows us that forum/before/ is in fact a directory. The next command svn status shows us that the directory is not under version control. The next line (svn add) shows an attempt to add the directory to version control, and the line after it shows that the directory still is not under version control. The last line shows that an svn commit does nothing, i.e. no commit.

I can confirm that the directory in question is not added to the repository. Why might that be, and how can I fix it? This is on CentOS 5. Thanks.

Answer 1

The problem was that the directory in question was copied from another directory under version control. Removing all the .svn subdirectories resolved the issue. I used the following command to remove them (from within forum/before/):

rm -rf `find . -name .svn`