Bug#347456: subversion: svn doesn't like it if folders already exist

[Peter Samuelson]

[Thorsten Gunkel]
> However when I want to do a checkout on another machine svn will complain
> because etc already exists:
> 
>  # svn update
>  svn: Working copy 'etc' is missing or not locked

   # cd /etc
   # svn checkout http://your.server/your/etc .

This will store the files directly in /etc as you wish.  However, it
may not be quite what you want, because it will refuse to overwrite any
files you may already have in /etc.  (I'm guessing you would want it to
do so.)

There have been some requests for upstream to deal with this situation
more gracefully, but from what I can recall, the discussions haven't
ever ended conclusively and nobody has stepped up to do the work.
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