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

[Thorsten Gunkel]

On [Thu, 12.01.2006 01:18], Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [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.)

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>?

> 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?

thanks
 Thorsten