Question

I created a directory in a repo directory, which I have a working copy for. My working copy is locally changed, and an update doesn’t pull the new folder into the working copy, giving no errors.

Should I ‘copy’ the related folder into its place in the WC, or should I make a ‘checkout’?

Will a checkout of a subdir into a working copy work as if it was done with the initial checkout in the beginning? Or would it result in a more complex working copy (like two nested working copy structures, an additional .svn folder or something)

Using tortoise svn, 1.7+

Answer 1

Have you tried specifically doing an svn up <folder> in the working copy rather than a generic svn up? If your local working copy is dirty and you don’t need the changes you could just svn revert .. Otherwise just move the existing working copy out of the way, check out a new version, and copy over what you need, and move on.