How to fix "containing working copy admin area is missing" in SVN?

svn repair delete-directory
e-satis picture e-satis · Sep 8, 2009 · Viewed 159.8k times · Source

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can't restore the directory.

Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with: 

"blabla/.svn" containing working copy admin area is missing.

I understand why, but is there anyway to fix this.

I don't want to checkout the entire repo and add my changes to it manually, it would take hours.

Answer

Mark picture Mark · Sep 8, 2009

According to this: http://www.devcha.com/2008/03/svn-directory-svn-containing-working.html

Check-out the folder "blabla" to a different location and then copy its .svn folder back into the original "blabla".

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