I got into a similar situation (svn: ‘papers’ is not a working copy directory) a different way, so I thought I’d post my battle story (simplified): (This article is from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/374313/svn-error-not-a-working-copy) $ svn add papers svn: Can’t create directory ‘papers/.svn’: Permission denied Oops! fix permissions… then: $ svn add papers svn: warning: ‘papers’ is already…
Month: September 2010
I can’t add a directory because Subversion says it’s “already under version control”.
The directory you’re trying to add already contains a .svn subdirectory, but it’s from a different repository than the directory to which you’re trying to add it. This probably happened because you used your operating system’s “copy” command to copy one working copy into the current one. The quick and dirty solution is to delete…