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Asked: May 17, 20262026-05-17T22:01:31+00:00 2026-05-17T22:01:31+00:00

I accidentally committed a folder named .svn to a Subversion repository. Now when I

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I accidentally committed a folder named .svn to a Subversion repository. Now when I try to check out or update I get this error message:

svn: Failed to add directory
‘oops/conferences/.svn’: an
unversioned directory of the same name
already exists

I removed the directory in the next commit, but that didn’t help. Any ideas?

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    2026-05-17T22:01:32+00:00Added an answer on May 17, 2026 at 10:01 pm

    Have you tried to remove the folder directly in the SVN repository?

    svn delete http://my.svnserver.org/path/.svn
    

    Most SVN commands can take either a local path into the working copy or an URL into the repository. You should be careful with the latter, since this performs the action directly, without any need to commit.

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