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

[Peter Samuelson]

[Thorsten Gunkel]
> No, I can live with that. If I want to overwrite that files anyway I
> can delete them manually if svn complains.
> 
> So in short the solution to my problem is
> <URL:http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import>?

That's it, yeah.

> > 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.
> 
> Maybe it would be enough to modify the error message to explain what
> can be done to make the folder a working copy?

Well, your original approach:

  # svn update
  svn: Working copy 'etc' is missing or not locked

is already confusing to me - how did you tell svn the address of your
repository in the first place?  And I wonder why it didn't complain at
that time.
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