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7th Mar 2007, 11:09am

Subversion 1.3 and "svn: Working copy path '...' does not exist in repository." problem

We are running version of subversion that is a little bit old - 1.3.0. I hesitate to update it just now because I recall there were a few tricky dependency issues with the database that svn uses when I tried to install it in the first place - I couldn't go later than this particular version.

I came across this bug when doing a bit of merging that involved the removal of a file. It's described here.

In the end I discovered that all you need to do is to remove the directory that has the rogue file in, then check out that directory again. (No further moving and merging was needed in my case.)