svn check-in failed because subfolder is missing. is there alternative to checking out fresh repository?

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I would like to check a particular folder ("myfolder") into SVN. TortoiseSVN believes it should contain a subfolder "mysub", but that subfolder no longer exists. (Long ago, I may have screwed something up when I renamed "mysub" to something else.)

TortoiseSVN shows the text-status of "mysub" as "deleted". When I try to check "myfolder" into SVN, I get this error:

Error. Commit failed. Entry for '...\mysub' has no url. Try a 'Cleanup'. If that doesn't work, you need to do a fresh checkout.

Cleanup completed successfully, but did not solve the problem.

First question: Are they saying I should delete my local copy of "myfolder" and replace it with a newly checked-out copy? (Sorry for the newbie question, but I am new to SVN and want to make sure I don't do anything stupid.)

Second question: Can anyone suggest an alternative? There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of files and folders under "myfolder" that have not yet been checked into SVN. I would lose all these files and folders if I deleted my working version. I could manually merge these files/folders into a newly checked-out repository, but that would be an enormous pain. I R-E-A-L-L-Y hope there is a way to fix the problem without deleting my working repository.

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try cleanup, update, then commit then add the new folder to svn – scibuff
Not the best workaround, but will it commit if you create the mysub folder? – Karl Barker
@Karl: I tried what you suggest, but that didn't work. Windows explorer displays a yellow exclamation point on both 'myfolder' and 'mysub'. – moondog
@scibuff: That worked! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – moondog

2 Answers

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You'll want to run:

svn cleanup

svn update

and then try your commit. If it doesn't work, does it fail in the same manner? what is the output of

svn status

What version of svn are you running? file/directory moves got significantly more fancy in 1.6.

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If you want to check in a folder or a file which does not exist on the latest version on the repository you need to tell the svn that this is a newly added thing, this can be done by right click on file/folder using eclipse svn plugin then choosing add to version control, or similler methods using tortoise svn or any other svn clients.